Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson, author of a new Steve Jobs biography, spoke with Rick Stengel on January 24 at 92Y about the significance of Jobs’s contributions to the business world and the six industries he revolutionized: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablets and digital publishing.


  1. But it's not just other industries Jobs revolutionized. As the AP reported today: "The iPhone is taking over Apple. For the first time, the device that changed how people use mobile phones, accounts for more than half of [Apple's] sales." 
  2. What's the next industry ripe for a revolution?

  3. Who is the next Steve Jobs?

  4. And who might be the next subject for a biography by Isaacson?

  5. If you haven't read Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs, you can pick it up here