Steve Jobs Archive Releases Free eBook

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The Steve Jobs Archive is set to release an eBook 'Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words' on April 11th.

Coming to digital platforms on April 11. A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers an unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs approached his life and work. In the pages of this book, Steve shares his perspective on his childhood, on launching and being pushed out of Apple, on his time with Pixar and NeXT, and on his ultimate return to the company that started it all.

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Make Something Wonderful | a book from the Steve Jobs Archive

Discover the new digital book Make Something Wonderful, a curated collection of speeches, correspondence, and photographs from Steve Jobs revealing his approach to life and work with Apple and Pixar.

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The Steve Jobs Archive is set to release an eBook 'Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words' on April 11th.

Coming to digital platforms on April 11. A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers an unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs approached his life and work. In the pages of this book, Steve shares his perspective on his childhood, on launching and being pushed out of Apple, on his time with Pixar and NeXT, and on his ultimate return to the company that started it all.

To subscribe for updates visit:

Make Something Wonderful | a book from the Steve Jobs Archive

Discover the new digital book Make Something Wonderful, a curated collection of speeches, correspondence, and photographs from Steve Jobs revealing his approach to life and work with Apple and Pixar.

stevejobsarchive.com

And it’s free!

 

[tonymacx86]

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From the book: Steve playing pinball, 1983. Photograph by Bill Atkinson.

 

[tonymacx86]

Released today free!

Make Something Wonderful | a book from the Steve Jobs Archive

Discover the new digital book Make Something Wonderful, a curated collection of speeches, correspondence, and photographs from Steve Jobs revealing his approach to life and work with Apple and Pixar.

stevejobsarchive.com

 

[tonymacx86]

Available on macOS Books app:

 

[trs96]

This sounds like Steve was predicting what AI would be like, way back in 1983.

The problem was, you can’t ask Aristotle a question. And I think, as we look towards the next fifty to one hundred years, if we really can come up with these machines that can capture an underlying spirit, or an underlying set of principles, or an underlying way of looking at the world, then, when the next Aristotle comes around, maybe if he carries around one of these machines with him his whole life—his or her whole life—and types in all this stuff, then maybe someday, after this person’s dead and gone, we can ask this machine, “Hey, what would Aristotle have said? What about this?” And maybe we won’t get the right answer, but maybe we will. And that’s really exciting to me. And that’s one of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing.

 

[wstrohm]

Steve playing pinball, 1983. Photograph by Bill Atkinson.

Bill Atkinson created Hypercard, IIRC.

 

[c-o-pr]

Atkinson also was a contributor to the Fine Art printing community, using his savvy to create great color profiles for inkjet printers and offering them for everyone to use, back when Epson's ICC offerings where less perfect than they are now.

That Polaroid of Jobs at the pinball machine maybe hints at his enjoyment of image-making tech, which Apple would go on significantly advance via Colorsync.

Unfortunately Apple no longer curates tools for custom color the way it once did and serious bugs in custom profile handling have been tolerated in macOS for years and years in spite of many attempts to get Apple's attention.

OTOH, Apple's products now have very consistently excellent displays across the line. An iPhone can be used as a poor-man's reference for excellent rendering.