Aaron Sorkin is a busy man. He has time only for an interview on the telephone from the car taking him to Heathrow Airport; he volunteers to carry on our conversation once he has landed in Los Angeles but, to no surprise of mine, that call never comes. This is the kind of round-the-clock, minute-to-minute way of doing business made possible – or, arguably, forced on us – by modern technology. By people like the late Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and Sorkin's most recent subject. "You know, in the mid-'70s and late '70s, the people using computers were hobbyists and geeks," says Sorkin into his iPhone. "He [Jobs] said 'this is for everyone' ... That was his vision...
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