Geoffrey Cain

'I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter into one of the most creative periods of my life.'Steve JobsSteve Jobs in Exile tells the largely unexplored story of the dozen years Steve Jobs spent building NeXt in the aftermath of his firing from Apple, the company he founded, in 1985. This period would see Jobs at his most creative, vulnerable and intense. It would redefine him as a designer and a leader, ultimately leading to the later resurgence and dominance of Apple following his triumphant return. Yet this crucial period remains woefully under-covered. Award-winning writer Geoffrey Cain changes that. Utilising a trove of new material, including dozens of hours of unbroadcast footage of Jobs at NeXT's meetings and retreats, new interviews and unpublished oral histories with Jobs and his colleagues, new first-hand material and countless internal documents, Steve Jobs in Exile is the definitive history of the most remarkable period in the life of Steve Jobs.

Tajná výprava do čínskej dystopie. Predstavte si život, v ktorom si večer ľahnete vedľa svojho partnera a ráno sa zobudíte po boku štátom dosadeného špicľa. Stačí, ak poviete alebo urobíte niečo, čo sa systému nepáči a môžete skončiť v koncentračnom tábore alebo zmiznúť bez stopy. Kamery v dome, na uliciach, v obchodoch i v práci sledujú každý váš krok. Aj nepatrné pokĺznutie vám spôsobí veľké problémy. A trest môže prísť aj za činy, ktoré ste ešte nespáchali. Prediktívny policajný program pomocou najmodernejších technológií a databáz určí, akého zločinu sa človek v budúcnosti pravdepodobne dopustí a odporučí jeho prevýchovu. Odrezaní od pravdy a možnosti voľby, pod neustálym dozorom a útlakom policajných zložiek. Obyvatelia Ujgurskej autonómnej republiky Sin-ťiang na západe Číny hovoria svojej dystopii „situácia“. No to, čo pôsobí ako neuveriteľný námet z futuristického románu, je pre Ujgurov mrazivou realitou 21. storočia. Na základe výpovedí ujgurských utečencov, štátnych zamestnancov, výskumníkov i aktivistov žijúcich v exile, Geoffrey Cain opisuje situáciu z prvej ruky. Podáva svedectvo o tom, ako si Čína stanovila za cieľ vymazať identitu, kultúru a dejiny celého národa. A tak stvorila dokonalý policajný štát... Z anglického originálu The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future (PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group, New York 2021) preložil Peter Tkačenko.

'Shines an incisive and entertaining light into the secretive world of the South Korean technology giant shaping our digital lives in ways we probably can't imagine' -- Brad Stone Can the Asian giant beat Apple? Based on years of reporting on Samsung for the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and Time from his base in South Korea, and his countless sources inside and outside the company, Geoffrey Cain offers the first deep look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody knows. How has this happened? Forty years ago, Samsung was a rickety Korean agricultural conglomerate that produced sugar, paper, and fertilizer. But with the rise of the PC revolution, Chairman Lee Byung-chul came up with an incredibly risky multimillion dollar plan to make Samsung a major supplier of computer chips. Lee had been wowed by a young Steve Jobs who sat down with the chairman to offer his advice, and Lee quickly became obsessed with creating a tech empire. Today, Samsung employs over 350,000 people - over four times as many as Apple - and their revenues have grown 40 times their 1987 level. Samsung alone now make up more than 20% of South Korea's exports and sells more smartphones than any other company in the world. And furthermore, they don't just make their own phones, but are one of Apple's chief supplier on technology critical to the iPhone. Yet their disastrous recall of the Galaxy Note 7, with numerous reports of phones spontaneously bursting into flames, reveals the dangers of the company's headlong attempt to overtake Apple at any cost. A sweeping, insider account of the Korean's company's ongoing war against the likes of Google and Apple, Samsung Rising shows how a determined and fearless Asian competitor is poised to take on the giants of the tech world.