I started writing on a computer in the early 1980s when I worked at Time magazine. The several of us younger writers, including Walter Isaacson,who were eager to abandon typewriters had to go to use special non-PC consoles in a special little room. There were no PCs, no on-screen icons, no mice. A few years […]
When Steve Jobs was diagnosed with cancer in 2004, he approached Walter Isaacson to write his biography. Isaacson said no, not knowing about the cancer. In 2009, however, he agreed and the book that was released last week is a best-seller.