The Apple Revolution · Steve Jobs, the counterculture and how the crazy ones took over the world

The Apple Revolution · Steve Jobs, the counterculture and how the crazy ones took over the world
Authors
Dormehl, Luke
Publisher
Virgin Books
Tags
business
ISBN
9780753540626
Date
2012-08-02T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.58 MB
Lang
en
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This is the story of how the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll generation changed the world for ever. Meet the Crazy Ones who created Silicon Valley – the hippies who started the Homebrew Computer Club; the young ad executive who first sketched out Apple’s iconic logo; the engineers who met lying down in a cardboard geodesic dome at Stanford University. From Steve Wozniak, who built the first breakthrough Apple computers, to Jony Ive, the young Brit who imagined the iPod - the designers and programmers, the geeks, creatives and dreamers, they are all here.

And at the centre of it all, a bearded and barefoot Steve Jobs, whose singular vision would will Apple Inc. into a future that it would come to own …