From The Grave: 60 Minutes Airs Steve Jobs Audio From Biographer Walter Isaacson

 

Walter Issacson‘s latest biography might be the most historically significant, at least for the very moment in which we now find ourselves. Over the last year or so, Apple founder Steve Jobs granted 40 interviews recorded for a biography, the publish date of which has been moved up since the Jobs died this month as a result of pancreatic cancer. 60 Minutes sat down with Issacson for a two-part feature on Jobs, both of which you can view below, courtesy of CBS News:

There is little question of legacy of Steve Job on the still very nascent digital age, but his passing saw near universal recognition that he was a visionary the likes of which the world has not seen since Edison, Curie and Ford. So hearing the voice of Jobs in broadcast television so soon after he had passed was both moving and eerie, but mostly enlightening and oddly consistent with Jobs vision. It seemed almost by design that Jobs would have the last word, via the open and candid interviews with Isaacson.

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