*The story of Steve Jobs’s rise, fall and restoration at Apple resembled a Greek epic, and Walter Isaacson was fascinated by the chance to reconstruct this odyssey.

*Like the fabled Icarus, Jobs tested the limits of technology and design to soar ever higher.

*But while he took a number of nosedives – descending for a time from the heights of Apple’s leadership – he never totally crashed to Earth, but was held aloft by his imagination and peerless intuition about the future.

*That remarkable inventiveness helped Apple launch a series of planet-changing products, led by Jobs’s vision of the sublime integration of art, design, ideas and technology.

Theme 1: From Cyberpunk to 1984 Rebel - 0:29

Theme 2: Toy Story and Tinseltown Stardom - 12:03

Theme 3: Apple Renaissance - 20:23

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Jobs, Steve. “Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement Address (2005).” Stanford News, 12 June 2017, news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/.

"Steve Jobs On Pixar Success, Hollywood & Storytelling". Youtube, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiXK11naSfY. Accessed 1 Mar 2019.

"Apple - Think Different - Full Version". Youtube, 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFEarBzelBs. Accessed 1 Mar 2019.

Full Title: Steve Jobs

Year of Publication: 2011

Book Author: Walter Isaacson

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Book Insight Writer: Kevin Holden

Editor: Tom Butler-Bowden

Producer: Daniel Gonzalez

Production Manager: Karin Richey

Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden

Narrator: Tom Evans