#Steve_Jobs #Lost Interview 1990 - A must watch for any #entreprenuer In early 1990 Steve Jobs granted a very rare interview to the makers of a #PBS NOVA miniseries called The Machine that Changed the World. The producers of the series had a tough time getting Jobs to agree to the interview. They had already interviewed #Bill_Gates, #Steve_Wozniak and most of the other founding fathers of the personal computing revolution, but the reclusive Jobs refused all requests. “As we started the series,” writes Nancy Linde at the NOVA Web site, “we were warned time and time again. ‘You ‘ll never get Steve Jobs on camera,’ those who knew him told us.” After multiple requests were sent to Jobs, he finally replied with a terse “No, thank you.” Linde continues: But we had an ace up our sleeve by the name of Robert Noyce. A legend in the computer world as the co-inventor of the microchip and co-founder of Intel, Bob Noyce was a strong supporter of The Machine That Changed the World and served on our advisory board. Like most in Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs revered Bob Noyce, and a one-paragraph letter from Noyce changed Jobs’ “no” into a “yes,” giving our series one of a limited number of interviews Steve Jobs gave in his short lifetime. At the time of the interview, Jobs was 35 years old and about midway through his 11-year exile from Apple. He was working with NeXT, the computer company he founded after being pushed out of Apple in 1995. In keeping with the theme of the miniseries, the interview deals mostly with the big picture. Jobs talks about the role of the computer in human life, and about the emergence and evolution of personal computing. He tells the story of how he and childhood friend Wozniak (referred to in the interview as “Woz”) turned a hobby into a business and developed the Apple I and Apple II computers. He very briefly touches on the first two revolutions that drove the personal computing revolution — spreadsheets and desktop publishing — before talking at length about the revolution that, in 1990, was still to come: networked computing. The World Wide Web had barely been created at the time of the interview, and Jobs is fairly prescient in his predictions about how the linking of computers would change the world.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 01:02:43 +0000
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