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when he became the first pope to resign and almost 600 years. he cited a quote, lack of strength of mind and body as his reason for stepping down. benedict was born in germany and grew up as the regime was gaining power. after the war. he turned to theological studies and eventually became a professor in 1951. he was ordained as a priest. as work in theology attracted the attention of the archbishop. who asked him to serve his expert assistance at the second vatican council in the sixties , and then in 1977, he was appointed archbishop of munich . three months later, he became cardinal benedict. the 16th was elected pope in 2005 following the death of his close friend, pope john paul, the second at age 78. he became the oldest newly elected pope since 1970. pope benedict the 16th dedicated his entire adult life to the church from 1951 when he was ordained a priest until resigning his pope in 2013, greg palkot, takes a look at his life and legacy. when john paul. the second di
retracement of the iphone in his book the one device. this year is the tenth anniversary of the iphone. he s interviewed by new york times reporter steve lohr. host: brian i read your book as a true creation story. one is apple has seen the turmoil that they went through to what ends up as the creation of the iphone. that is the history of the creation of each one of the technologies and those stories are knit together. why did you take that approach and take us back to the start of the book project itself. guest: yeah well so the idea for the book really kind of began with the stark realization that the phone had integrated itself into its own life and the life of my peers. it was something i really didn t understand particularly well. i, you know a lot of us have that moment i think when we are abruptly and suddenly forced to go without it for a second in this case i was in a cab. when i was retrieving it, i was standing in light at the dmz and i had jettisoned my r
the thing that integrated into my life and the life of my peers was something i really didn t understand particularly well. i, you know, a lot of us have that moment, i think, when we are abruptly and suddenly forced to go without it. i lost it in this case; left it in a cab. when i was retrieving the phone i was standing in line at the dmv and of course, i immediately put off the meetings at work and any other obligation. you just get your gone back. that is what you do when you lose your phone. it started gelling in my head. what is it about this one device that gives it this power? there is very little else i can imagine being forced to do such a thing. and as i sort of resolved the kind of digging into this and pealing off screen and seeing it more as just a consumer product i sort of started to realize there were there stories. there was the history of the phone and how it was developed at apple. that was carefully guarded by apple and the corporation. the other side of
in 2007. and the other is his integration of each one of the technologies. and those two stories come together. why did you take that approach and just take us back to the start of the book project itself. guest: yell. well, so the idea for the book really kind of began with sort of the start was a ship that this thing that is so fully integrate itself into a lease my own life and the life of my peers and so on and so forth with something that it really didn t understand particularly well. a lot of us had that moment i think when we are abruptly and suddenly to go without it for a second when in this case i locked it in a cab. when i was retrieving the phone i would stand in line at dmv. of course i jettison all my responsive as for the day immediately, put off the meetings at work, put off any other obligation. you just get the phone back. that s what you do when you lose your phone. it s kind of like started gelling in my head like what is it about this one device that gi