Interview with director of the movie "JOBS"

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Joshua Michael Stern, director of the Steve Jobs bio pic interviewed about the movie, iPods, iPhones & Ashton Kutcher.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/jobs-director-joshua-michael-stern-on-ipods-iphones-and-ashton-kutchers-geek-cred/ / story stories Apple’s Apple computer ][ Steve Jobs Facebook Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg visionary genius idea change the world gamble gambles his humanity proces story storytelling medium, films reductionist reductive by nature JV version The Social Network story Steve Jobs iconic products story JOBS really angry guy human interest stories being-given-up-for-adoption-at-birth given up for adoption at birth college collegiate drug experimentation wandering India early vision of personal computing movie knocks down first 20 minutes cliche laden cliche-ladened montages staccato scenes backstory Zuck redemption tale Ashton Kutcher plays Jobs with admirable sincerity relying heavily mimicry to distract barefoot wanderings around Oregon’s Reed College Bay Area co-founder spiritual foil Steve Wozniak Josh Gad ruthless efficiency founding of Apple computer garage Jobs’ childhood home establishment cutting edge personal computing industry late 70s ruthlessness ruthlessly establish darker elements character berates berate coworkers Atari ropes Wozniak rope project cut rate lie lying con Atari’s paying pay fire Apple programmer 1980 font fonts Apple’s Lisa computer character clearly anti-hero what comes next Jobs screwing friend founding employee Daniel Kottke out of shares Apple goes public stabbing hand picked hand-picked CEO John Scully in the back 1985 power struggle leave leaving Apple, ouster of founding investor Mike Markkula board upon CEO in 1997 inhabiting moments convincing as a barely-contained barely contained ball of fury withering lack of respect for anyone else tortured creative remorseful absentee father consumer electronics nexus where art pop culture technology converge film almost devoid of the products iPhone iPod iPad Macintosh Mac OSX OS X iOS PowerBook Power Book laptop smartphone air iMac mini pro /

Hybrid racers

Credit: as-web.jp/ Toyota/ Green Car Reports


Credit: Honda/ Green Car Reports

You're probably aware of the hybrid drive system in current Formula One cars, KERS, but hybrid drive is also making inroads into Japan's GT500 racing series.

Toyota Prius GT300 Race Car
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1071781_toyota-prius-300-gt-race-car-shown-at-tokyo-auto-salon

Honda NSX Concept GT
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1086293_honda-nsx-concept-gt-hondas-hybrid-racer-revealed

Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) in Formula 1


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