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“TV is a lonely, lonely medium.” – John Biggs
“These apps make it a little less lonely. Yap.TV gives people a reason to check in.” – Erick Schonfeld
February 2011
Ethernet TV and Technology13 Feb 2011 07:50 pm
Steve Jobs prepping for his first ever TV interview
For Apple fans who just can’t get enough, “there surfaced a video of the first television interview with Apple’s founder Steve Jobs. This video is probably taken in 1978, when Jobs was in his twenties. In this short clip you see the young Jobs (clearly nervous) preparing for his first time on national television” (YouTube).
Paul Laughton recounts his version of “The [Apple II] system [that] was hand delivered by Steve Jobs for use in the development projects. The Disk II disk drives with the are serial numbered 3 and 4.”
The Computer History Museum adds, “Apple Computer (now known as Apple, Inc.) was a major force in the personal computer revolution that took place in the 1970s and ’80s. Learning about its history teaches us about competing visions of the future and how companies made decisions during this exciting time. The Computer History Museum presents here two special documents from Apple Computer during the early days of personal computing. ”
More recently, Gizmodo relays, “Apple co-founder and Gizmodo Spiritual Mascot Steve Wozniak made a hilarious appearance on Big Bang Theory. Here’s what he had to say about Steve Jobs, black turtlenecks and Apple II.”
Ray Kurzweil on “I’ve Got a Secret” (1965)
Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil appeared on I’ve Got a Secret in 1965 when he was 17 years old. Read 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal in the current issue of TIME Magazine.
Combining Tradition with Technology, Chief Almir Surui
European Zeitgeist ’09
“Chief Almir’s people made official contact with the outside world only in 1969. And the distance from that moment to being here at a Google conference, talking to us about using Google Earth and about GPS technology to map sacred ancestral places, to me is absolutely incredible. And I must say, this is an environment in which you meet a lot of amazing people, but I’m absolutely in awe of a person who has managed to make that journey in their personal life, and is trying to bring his people along with him.”