technological tidal wave. so you ve just bought your first personal computer, you brought it home from the store, you re unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you ve just got your first personal computer, this show is for you. computers were, in 1990, a disconnected device. it was a brick, right, inside your house, that let you do amazing things that you d never been able to do before, but it was, essentially, a productivity tool. now that we have all these very powerful tools, we are still islands, and we are still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. apple was in a period of decline. steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985, and he went off and started a company called next. after he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring, unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. so why did you leave apple? well, why did i leave apple? well, i was asked to leave. yeah, i was asked to leave apple
so you ve just bought your first personal computer, you ve brought it home from the store, you re unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you ve just bought your first personal computer, this show is for you. computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. it was a brick, right? that sat in your house and let you do amazing things that you d never been able to do before, but it was essentially a productivity tool. now that we have all these very powerful tools, we re still islands, and we re still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. apple was in a period of decline. steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985. and he went off and started a company called next. after he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring, unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. so why did you leave apple? well, why did i leave apple? i was asked to leave. yeah, i was asked to leave apple. i was planning on spe
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Let me tell you. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. The Information Technology revolution changes our world on a daily basis, but one thing that doesnt change is our fascination with the socalled nerds who not only transformed society but became billionaires in the process. This Edition Features a trio of these tech titans bill gates, the man who created the worlds most valuable software company, microsoft; Mark Zuckerberg, the young, geeky Computer Programmer behind the internet phenomenon facebook; and sergey brin, the cofounder of google. Well begin with brin. Has there ever been a brand name like google . In less than five years, it went from an idea to a global verb, as in, i googled this, or, i google that, or, i google you. Back in 2006, shortly after the company went public, google opened its doors for the first time and let us google them. We have north america. Oh, look at that. Google cofounder sergey brin is showing us an electronic globe that displays the moun
A lot of cheeseburgers. Let me tell you. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. The Information Technology revolution changes our world on a daily basis, but one thing that doesnt change is our fascination with the socalled nerds who not only transformed society but became billionaires in the process. This Edition Features a trio of these tech titans bill gates, the man who created the worlds most valuable software company, microsoft; Mark Zuckerberg, the young, geeky Computer Programmer behind the internet phenomenon facebook; and sergey brin, the cofounder of google. Well begin with brin. Has there ever been a brand name like google . In less than five years, it went from an idea to a global verb, as in, i googled this, or, i google that, or, i google you. Back in 2006, shortly after the company went public, google opened its doors for the first time and let us google them. We have north america. Oh, look at that. Google cofounder sergey brin is showing us an electronic glob