Walter Isaacson
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Sep 21, 2026
Jim CramerHOST
Uh, and do you think that there are...
Jim CramerHOST
I know that, that from Walter Isaacson's book, that there really, that the pipeline that you're using really is, wh- while it was definitely had good things in it from Steve, a lot of these devices are yours and your team's, aren't they?
Tim CookSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, absolutely, yes.
Tim CookSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I mean, we're, we're now, uh, you know, q- quite a ways away from unfortunately his passing, and so there's a, there's a, been a lot of things that have started in creation, uh, after his passing.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
Um, so, uh, this is about like, you know, about like personal emancipation in a greater good.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
And then by the end of, of Steve Jobs life, what we see is that all of a sudden we were talking about that, that, you know, and this is his biographer, Walter Isaacson is talking about like, and I think, um, Malcolm, uh, Malcolm Gladwell to start talking about like, well, the Chinese that, you know, as the, as Chinese and Indian tech start to threaten American tech, um, You see op-eds, Isaacson, Gladwell, start to talk about Chinese and Indian technocracy, right? So all of a sudden, the technocrats are, that's the other, right? Those are the technocrats, not the 1960s IBM stuff.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
And the Americans are the creative group, right? They're the sort of more spiritual, trusting their intuition.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
So we see like a reversal, right? In the American economy where suddenly the Americans are the creative, the spiritual, the, you know, following their gut and and and we can just manage difference through like we can use the Chinese or Indian technocracy.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
Um, so, uh, this is about like, you know, about like personal emancipation in a greater good.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
And then by the end of, of Steve Jobs life, what we see is that all of a sudden we were talking about that, that, you know, and this is his biographer, Walter Isaacson is talking about like, and I think, um, Malcolm, uh, Malcolm Gladwell to start talking about like, well, the Chinese that, you know, is that as Chinese and Indian tech start to threaten American tech, um, You see op-eds, Isaacson, Gladwell, start to talk about Chinese and Indian technocracy, right? So all of a sudden the technocrats are, that's the other, right? Those are the technocrats, not the 1960s IBM stuff.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
And the Americans are the creative, are the creative group.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
Right there that they're the sort of more spiritual trusting their intuition.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
Um, so, uh, this is about like, you know, about like personal emancipation in a greater good.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
And then by the end of, of Steve Jobs' life, what we see is that all of a sudden we were talking about that, that, you know, and this is his biographer, Walter Isaacson is talking about like, and I think, um, Malcolm, uh, Malcolm Gladwell too, start talking about like, well, the Chinese, you know, as the, as Chinese and Indian tech start to threaten American tech, um, you see op-eds, Isaacson, Gladwell, start to talk about Chinese and Indian technocracy, right? So all of a sudden, the technocrats are, that's the other, right? Those are the technocrats, not the 1960s IBM stuff.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
And the Americans are the creative group, right? They're the sort of more spiritual, trusting their intuition.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
So we see like a reversal, right? In the American economy where suddenly the Americans are the creative, the spiritual, the, you know, following their gut and and and we can just manage difference through like we can use the Chinese or Indian technocracy.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
Um, so, uh, this is about like, you know, about like personal emancipation in a greater good.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
And then by the end of, of Steve Jobs life, what we see is that all of a sudden we were talking about that, that, you know, and this is his biographer, Walter Isaacson is talking about like, and I think, um, Malcolm, uh, Malcolm Gladwell to start talking about like, well, the Chinese, you know, as the, as Chinese and Indian tech start to threaten American tech, um, You see op-eds, Isaacson, Gladwell, start to talk about Chinese and Indian technocracy, right? So all of a sudden, the technocrats are, that's the other, right? Those are the technocrats, not the 1960s IBM stuff.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
And the Americans are the creative group, right? They're the sort of more spiritual, trusting their intuition.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
So we see like a reversal, right? In the American economy where suddenly the Americans are the creative, the spiritual, the, you know, following their gut and and and we can just manage difference through like we can use the Chinese or Indian technocracy.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
Um, so, uh, this is about like, you know, about like personal emancipation in a greater good.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
And then by the end of, of Steve Jobs life, what we see is that all of a sudden we were talking about that, that, you know, and this is his biographer, Walter Isaacson is talking about like, and I think, um, Malcolm, uh, Malcolm Gladwell to start talking about like, well, the Chinese, you know, as the, as Chinese and Indian tech start to threaten American tech, um, You see op-eds, Isaacson, Gladwell, start to talk about Chinese and Indian technocracy, right? So all of a sudden, the technocrats are, that's the other, right? Those are the technocrats, not the 1960s IBM stuff.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
And the Americans are the creative group, right? They're the sort of more spiritual, trusting their intuition.
Eileen LuhrGUEST
So we see like a reversal, right? in the American economy where suddenly the Americans are the creative, the spiritual, the, you know, following their gut.
Russell WatkinsHOST
Yeah.
Russell WatkinsHOST
But I but but I grudgingly having having read his Walter Isaacson biography.
Russell WatkinsHOST
He is a lean thinker, you know, in many ways, with the exception of respect for people.
Russell WatkinsHOST
But in terms of in terms of his thinking way, back to first principles, challenging requirements, understanding the balance between automation and people now because he's been through it.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
Our next guest made his name 37 years ago with his landmark essay, The End of History, celebrating the triumphs of liberal democracy over Soviet communism.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
Now, political scientist Francis Fukuyama has a new memoir, In the Realm of the Last Man, and he's joining Walter Isaacson to reflect on what he got right and wrong nearly four decades ago, and the powers that still threaten this political system.
Walter IsaacsonCORRESPONDENT
Thank you, Chris John and Dr. Francis Fukuyama.
Walter IsaacsonCORRESPONDENT
Welcome back to the show.
Geoffrey CainGUEST
there's been a lot written about Steve Jobs.
Geoffrey CainGUEST
And the one definitive biography is the one by Walter Isaacson called Steve Jobs.
Geoffrey CainGUEST
I mean, that's the go-to, the access biography.
Geoffrey CainGUEST
Steve gave a lot of interviews to Walter Isaacson for that one.
Geoffrey CainGUEST
And he told the story of what happened at Apple when Steve founded it with Steve Wozniak in the 70s and 80s.
Geoffrey CainGUEST
So that's a story.
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Geoffrey CainGUEST
They worked for him.
Geoffrey CainGUEST
They had Apple contracts.
Salim IsmailPANELIST
We just need to choose to do it, and there's not a lot of that activity that seems to be going on, which is what surprises me.
Peter DiamandisHOST
I can't wait for the Walter Isaacson, uh, book on this or the made for TV movie that covers the last, you know, month.
Peter DiamandisHOST
I mean, honestly, uh-
Dave BlundinPANELIST
Yeah.
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