Charlie Rose

JohnGelles  10/08/2011 05:15 PM Report

Why ask Apple to manufacture American hardware products here and foreign ones in many other nations in need of jobs and manufacturing capacity?

Why not? Is it more important to threaten America and other nations with economic stagnation than to learn how to benefit all nations with requisite know how and income?

What is income anyway?

Apple is doing well -- but at what cost to the global economy?

This week's New Yorker attempts to answer such questions. It fails. Can we succeed?

Should we try?

JohnGelles  10/08/2011 05:08 PM Report

Necessity is mother to some invention. Other invention, such as how to move from less than full employment to full employment and more, appears to be an invention in need of parents.

pkwonderwall  10/08/2011 01:46 PM Report

If necessity is the mother of invention

Then Steve Jobs was the sire of invention that became our necessity.

I’ll miss you sire.

Paul J. Kelley – San Francisco

doodee  10/08/2011 07:41 AM Report

I feel bad I never knew the guy. Or bought a Macantosh, or an Ipad, or a Iphone, or a IMacwhatever. I should have, so I could have made history; and be Immortalized in the eyes of 'Barbara Walters'.

JohnGelles  10/08/2011 06:01 AM Report

Steve Jobs created teams of giant talent that accomplished prodigious tasks. If only more of us could have his skill at this.

I for one envied him that talent.

My site has a list of Charlie Rose Shows this season that bear on what's happening -- it's at:

http://www.ustaxreform.us/.crs.htm

If you read http://www.ustaxreform.us

you might decide to help. We need a team like those that Steve Jobs created many times not only once.

JohnGelles  10/08/2011 05:44 AM Report

Some people on TV have said that Apple manufactures product in China that by rights ought to be made at home. I'm not one to judge such things too fast. Apple is not the government. They may not have had a real choice. But the revolution in the streets of American cities where people who need work ask the government to do its duty is more important in my view than any other news. Will it have legs? Will we listen to the millions who need a government that knows how to govern? Or are we the "national entertainment state" whose stories are sour and out of touch with the realities of progress or lack of progress?

JohnGelles  10/08/2011 05:34 AM Report

Steve Jobs in this 1996 interview had not yet turned Apple into the world's most successful info-tech company. The interview is about story telling with story boards and computer assisted drawing. Steve Jobs is a much younger man (eleven years ago he was 45 and not about to die or dead).

He compares Snow White to Toy Story. The comparison may not be fair -- I am no judge -- I remember Snow White -- never saw the other movie.

What is plain is that animated films will one day (thanks to computers) be positioned to tackle education of the human race in science and technology, law and economics, politics and anthropology.

When that day arrives, Steve Jobs will be recognized as a great pioneer who worked hard and had powerful ideas on how to use your brain and experience -- and not be limited by embedded habits of other people who are wrong on many issues.

Steve Jobs died young by some standards and very old by the standard of having lived in fewer years more days than the oldest of us.

We still need better keyboards than we have. And far more speech to text and text to speech than are popular at the moment. And we need to bring the power of our entertainment industry to explain complexity to the issues that keep us relatively poor in an era when the poorest of us might be very rich if we knew what we were doing.

The young Charlie Rose in 1996 did not know the future of the clip we just looked at. He expected Steve Jobs to enjoy less success than later came his way and far less tragedy too.

What I liked best about the clip was Steve Jobs saying, "... we are a team -- a large team. and these movies take many years to make in this year of 1996." (or words to that effect).

I look forward to the day when great stories will be made in very short order. And they will serve our interests directly and far better than anything we do today.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/08/2011 01:23 AM Report

Steve said here that Pixar beta tests and iterates the film before they make it. Toy Story took 1.5 years JUST FOR THE STORY! This is why Pixar does so well--the STORY!

He also said he that Pixar was a room full of Ph.D.s. So it is like a Manhattan Project.

Steve Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas for $10 million and sold it to Disney for $7.6 billion.

WOW!!!

So where can we get another Pixar for green energy? I think I am adequately entertained.

MadameDefarge  10/07/2011 05:21 PM Report

Can we please have a more thorough tribute to Steve Jobs? While this interview was a great beginning, the man was the technological and even cultural icon of our time. His impact on the way we live deserves much more air time, especially since Charlie always does a terrific job of capturing what was unique and wonderful about a person.

anne4444  10/07/2011 03:44 PM Report

It was a great speech by steve jobs. The meaning behind these simple words is profound.

Life works like recording machine. Our scientists have already started in researching after 60 min interviews of endless memory.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/07/2011 01:01 PM Report

Stephen Colbert's 3:43 tribute to Steve Jobs made me cry--literally.

And if you know Colbert's family history with death it was even more poignant.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/399182/october-06-2011/tribute-to-steve-jobs

Colbert is amazing--from laughter to tears in two seconds.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/07/2011 12:53 PM Report

Charlie,

This was a great interview to replay. It gave us a real flavor of the man and a review of a fantastic company.

For balance please remember what Michael Eisner said:

MICHAEL EISNER: "No, if you say yes to Steve (Jobs) you have a very good relationship with Steve. So if you are determining your relationship by your agreement with him, fine I have a very good relationship with Steve until I said no, I won’t pay that amount of money. So that is not the issue. Bob (Iger) wanted peace in the kingdom."

Steve Jobs/Pixar did the impossible--$400 to $500 million per movie box office--which is what Eisner calculated it would take to pay for Pixar. This was better than Disney’s record, better than Speilberg’s.

Plus, and Eisner missed this, the life of these films is decades perhaps centuries.

Pixar, and Steve Jobs, created the Manhattan Project of entertainment.