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...witness the iPhone launch from behind the curtain (or under the towel) is to see the controlling hand of Steve Jobs, for whom this is an almost mystically significant year. He's 52 years old. It's been 30 years since he founded Apple (with Stephen Wozniak), and 10 since he returned there after having been fired. In that decade Apple's stock has gone up more than 1,000%. Neither age nor success (nor cancer surgery in 2004) have significantly mellowed him, though some of the silver in his beard is creeping into his hair. All technologists believe their...
...construction supervisor, set out to create a material cheap enough to be used in the world's poorest regions but also strong enough to withstand natural disasters like the recent earthquake in Afghanistan. The Strawjet - which was selected by a panel of experts, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, for its potential global impact - will be part of a traveling exhibit along with the contest's 24 other finalists, which will travel from New York City's Grand Central Terminal to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio, where it will be on display through September...
Judging the contest will be a group of journalists and innovators, including TIME.com editor Joshua Macht, who edited this week's cover package. And helping promote the contest (and perhaps judge some of the entries) is a man who knows a little bit about inventing great things: Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and co-creator of its first products. "True inventors aren't necessarily trying to cause a sea change in society," he says. "They're just trying to solve a problem. Still, I think this contest is going to attract a lot of great ideas, some...
...hour workweek, there's someone punching out at 5. Men and women--so it's said--express ambition differently; so do Americans and Europeans, baby boomers and Gen Xers, the middle class and the well-to-do. Even among the manifestly motivated, there are degrees of ambition. Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer and then left the company in 1985 as a 34-year-old multimillionaire. His partner, Steve Jobs, is still innovating at Apple and moonlighting at his second blockbuster company, Pixar Animation Studios...
...Some of the guests offered their outlook on the process of creating tech companies. Stephen Wolfram—the creator of the software package Mathematica—credited common sense with the success of his company, Wolfram Research. One of the bigger names to speak was Steve Wozniak, who narrated the early history of Apple, the company he co-founded. He paraphrased a remark that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once made: “It doesn’t matter if we make money or not. We’ll have a company that we could call...