Make Something Wonderful | Steve Jobs
This anthology of Steve Jobs interviews, announcements and emails is available to read for free as a nicely typeset web book.
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
Friday, August 20th, 2021
How Steven Weinberg Transformed Physics and Physicists | Quanta Magazine
His first popular book — The First Three Minutes, about cosmology and the Big Bang — became an instant classic and proved profoundly influential for both the general public and professional researchers. Many physicists, including me, started learning cosmology from this book.
The First Three Minutes blew my little mind as a teenager. It has stayed with me.
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
Mistakes on a plane
I’m in Seattle. An Event Apart just wrapped up here and it was excellent as always. The venue was great and the audience even greater so I was able to thoroughly enjoy myself when it was time for me to give my talk.
I’m going to hang out here for another few days before it’s time for the long flight back to the UK. The flight over was a four-film affair—that’s how I measure the duration of airplane journeys. I watched:
- Steve Jobs,
- The Big Short,
- Spectre, and
- Joy.
I was very glad that I watched Joy after three back-to-back Bechdel failures. Spectre in particular seems to have been written by a teenage boy, and I couldn’t get past the way that the The Big Short used women as narrative props.
I did enjoy Steve Jobs. No surprise there—I enjoy most of Danny Boyle’s films. But there was a moment that took me out of the narrative flow…
The middle portion of the film centres around the launch of the NeXT cube. In one scene, Michael Fassbender’s Jobs refers to another character as “Rain Man”. I immediately started to wonder if that was an anachronistic comment. “When was Rain Man released?” I thought to myself.
It turns out that Rain Man was released in 1988 and the NeXT introduction was also in 1988 but according to IMDB, Rain Man was released in December …and the NeXT introduction was in October.
The jig is up, Sorkin!
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
stevenberlinjohnson.com: How We Got To Now
This sounds like it’s a going to be a good: a new TV series by Steven Johnson on the history of technology and innovation. Sounds very Burkian, which is a very good thing.
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer - W3C Blog
While others recall Steve Jobs’s legacy with Apple, Tim Berners-Lee recounts the importance of NeXT.
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Op-Ed Contributor - Mind Over Mass Media - NYTimes.com
An excellent rebuttal by Steven Pinker to Nicholas Carr's usual trolling.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
The Future of Code
Steven Pemberton, one of my favourite long-term thinkers, talks about programming, markup and XForms.
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live -- Printout -- TIME
Steven Johnson waxes lyrical on Twitter.
Monday, April 20th, 2009
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com
A good piece from Steven Johnson on the future of e-books but alas, it completely ignores DRM which is a show-stopper to the bright future he imagines.
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Why you should have a Web Site (and other Web 3.0 issues)
This presentation by Steven Pemberton increases in value over time.
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Why you should have a Website
Steven Pemberton's talk from XTech 2008 in Dublin is becoming more relevant with each passing day as yet another service shuts down; Pownce, Ficlets, Stikkit...
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
BBC World Service - Find A Programme - Digital Planet
The BBC were at dConstruct. This podcast episode includes interviews with Steven Johnson, Aleks and the the Dopplr Matts.
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Planet Douche : Attus Apparel - Threaded for Liberation
Popping one collar is pretty gay. Popping 3 or 4 collars is super gay. Popping 24 collars ...that shit is hot.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Who Framed George Lakoff? - ChronicleReview.com
A detailed look at the troubled history of George Lakoff, the father of conceptual metaphor.
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Seero - Steve_McQueen - Bullitt Chase Scene
Watch the best car chase of all time mashed up with a map of San Francisco to create geo-broadcasting. The added context gives an already perfect sequence added zing.
Monday, October 29th, 2007
What the F***?
I saw Steven Pinker give a talk recently and he spent a fair amount of time talking about swearing. He has written up that part of the talk into an article for the New Republic.
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
NCSE Resource
To counter the creationists' lists of "scientists who doubt evolution" here's a list of scientists named Steve who support Darwin's theory. (via Steven Pinker's Q&A after a lecture last week)
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Apple - To all iPhone customers
Early adopters of the iPhone now get a $100 of Apple Store credit. Nice bit of customer management.
Friday, December 1st, 2006
www.steve.museum - Home
An experiment in social tagging of art museum collections