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Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy
2011 · Film · documentary · 49 min
Directed by Laura Craig Gray, Tristan Quinn
Broadly considered a brand that inspires fervour and defines cool consumerism, Apple has become one of the biggest corporations in the world, fuelled by game-changing products that tap into modern desires. Its leader, Steve Jobs, was a long-haired college dropout with infinite ambition, and an inspirational perfectionist with a bully's temper. A man of contradictions, he fused a Californian counterculture attitude and a mastery of the art of hype with explosive advances in computer technology. Insiders including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the chairman who ousted Jobs from the company he founded, and Jobs' chief of software, tell extraordinary stories of the rise, fall and rise again of Apple with Steve Jobs at its helm. With Stephen Fry, world wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and branding guru Rita Clifton, Evan Davis decodes the formula that took Apple from suburban garage to global supremacy.
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Billion Dollar Hippy is a fantastic documentary btw, as is to be expected from BBC Four.
Cool.
Episode of "Micro Live" with a brief demo of a Fairlight CMI Series III
https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/b8a2ca1e800873c2cd8f38e5ed8bd5b4
Clip from Micro Live that visits Infocom during the development of text adventure "Spellbreaker". LISP mentioned in passing.
https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/a2e1d6d7656c5505bd3dc74a8ef8d392
2011 documentary on Steve Jobs: "Billion Dollar Hippy":
https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/a54d226a1c0d98b7d93f4859efa34421