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
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 …