COLUMBIA — Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple who revolutionized personal computers, music, animated movies and more had set his sights on redesigning the household television before he died.
Walter Isaacson, a former editor of Time magazine and CEO of CNN whose biography on Jobs was released last month, says Jobs wanted to make the television more user friendly. He said Jobs also wanted to design cameras that work in low-light situations and to create digital textbooks.
Isaacson, who interviewed Jobs over two years as Jobs fought a losing battle with cancer, described Jobs as a passion-driven artist whose quest for perfection made him a tough boss and a jerk at times. But he said while some might not want to emulate his leadership style, the nation could use more people concerned with craft instead of just pushing commodities.
Isaacson is the keynote speaker today for the Liberty Fellowship Summit in Columbia, a conference of leaders from across the state whose topic this year is “Transcending Tribalism.”
The Liberty program develops young leaders with a mandate that they take action to benefit South Carolinians. Isaacson is president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy institute based in Washington, DC. upon which the Liberty program was modeled.
