Jonah Grant
January 2011
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“The Interview was all but complete when I met [Steve] Jobs at a celebrity-filled birthday party for a youngster in New York City. As the evening progressed, I wandered around to discover that Jobs had gone off with the nine-year-old birthday boy to give him the gift he’d brought from California: a Macintosh computer. As I watched, he showed the boy how to sketch with the machine’s graphics program. Two other party guests wandered into the room and looked over Jobs’s shoulder. ‘Hmmm,’ said the first, Andy Warhol. ‘What is this? Look at this, Keith. This is incredible!’ The second guest, Keith Haring, the graffiti artist whose work now commands huge prices, went over. Warhol and Haring asked to take a turn at the Mac, and as I walked away, Warhol had just sat down to manipulate the mouse. ‘My God!’ he was saying, ‘I drew a circle!’ “But more revealing was the scene after the party. Well after the other guests had gone, Jobs stayed to tutor the boy on the fine points of using the Mac. Later, I asked him why he had seemed happier with the boy than with the two famous artists. His answer seemed unrehearsed to me: ‘Older people sit down and ask, “What is it?” but the boy asks, “What can I do with it?”
—A huge Playboy interview with Steve Jobs, aged 29
The real reason why cellphones are banned on airplanes
“It seems a lot of people believe that the cellphone ban during takeoff and landing is safety related, and mandated by the FAA.
It’s not.
The FCC had the ban implemented because as planes fly along, full of hundreds of passengers, their phones simultaneously jump from one tower’s coverage to the next. As the cell systems are ancient, this can cause the network to crash. So the ban is a result of cellphone providers terrible infrastructure, and not because your phone could cause the aircraft to fall out of the sky.”
- Ryan Brown.
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