Annie Jacobsen
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You don't want the stimulus.
Okay, and that's the quote from him.
Okay, so I remember when my son Jet is now 19, and he was probably nine.
My other son's Finley Jacobson.
Sounds like a fucking fighter pilot.
So he was like maybe nine years old when the first iPhone came out.
And I had one, and he just thought it was so cool.
And I will never forget, he said at the dinner table, Mom, just to be clear...
When you were born, they didn't have these iPhones.
I mean, try telling your kids about an answering machine.
Okay, are you ready for this trivia?
Why, one of the reasons why you could argue that computers became so important to the Defense Department back in 1961 is because during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and this is like, I have seen these documents at the National Archives.
JFK was so worried about that exact movement you made with your finger, the dial phone.