3D printing for all? Metal business cards for all? NFC tags all over? Genetic experimentation? Self driving cars?

Thanks, but this is hard to answer. I was just an engineer and could not fail. Steve Jobs wanted to work at the top and run things and was good at vision, at spotting what was good and what was bad and where the world was headed. He was very open to thoughts by brilliant artistic people, thinkers more at the level of…

You'd have to ask Facebook for an answer. Or maybe you could ask Watson. It's what they always have said in our field but such important disruptive startups can appear any time. It's more about people than about technology.

I want to ask SIRI questions to my iPod nano sized watch someday, and have it connected. Maybe a lower power wifi will suffice with the small battery. Maybe other energy technologies will come along, like the ones that absorb many radio frequencies for a bit of power. Maybe chips will become photonic instead of…

I'm not sure what the first question is about. Any friend who tells me they are on a reality TV show (although I don't watch TV) and wants to ask me something, is something I'm glad to do. We sold Apple computers after all, and with a big profit. And we needed some startup capital to make it happen. I do worry about…

We've lost. Technology is too inexpensive and everywhere. The next privacy battle may be in decades but it will be computers protecting themselves from human inspection.

You'll never be my first. And in real life, as with all of us, many of my friends are gay. Many have been important in my life. In fact, the guy who ran Call Computer was gay and he bought the video terminal I had designed to access the Arpanet. Steve jobs sold them to him as cheaper terminals than he was renting at…

After the multitouch screen of the iPhone, we did move to a world of apps. These apps are getting smarter and smarter about working with data on the cloud. I see my life more tied up with all the apps than a phone I can touch. Our mobile devices are getting smarter and more human but we need great strides to make them…

I'm very self taught. I was very good at designing everything digital, including computers. My friend, Allen Baum, told HP that I had such skill and they interviewed me and hired me as a design engineer on the iPhone 4 of it's time, the HP handheld scientific calculators. The lab manager, Tom Whitney, probably had a…

We're on the path to wearable computers, on our eyes and wrist. People have been comfortable wearing technology in these places for hundreds of years. I wish my tablet had full computer operation, with multiple windows visible at the same time. Maybe that will happen. Maybe I'll even have nice user scripting languages…

I attended Cupertino Jr. High School (as it was called then) but not at the same time as Steve Jobs. I would have attended the same elementary school as Steve Jobs except that it wasn't built yet (my younger brother did attend it). We both attended Homestead High School in Cupertino, but not at the same time. I'm glad…

My EE father had a brain and a heart. I wanted to be like him. He also spoke of pranks at Cal Tech.

Built a TV jammer...the only color TV (1968) was in the basement of Libby Hall, a girl's dorm. I sat there one night and jammed (fuzzed up) the TV. A friend hit the TV and I made it go good. After a few sessions, they started stationing a student right by the TV every night whose job it was to knock and pound and…

I feel at times that Apple could have just as great of products and be open to interacting with the rest of the world. I'd say more but there are too many convoluted things with no firm answer as to right or wrong.

I worked out lifetime philosophies of truth and happiness in high school and early college years. I worked out a few keys for my own life but they wouldn't necessarily work for someone else. Because I spent a lot of quiet inner hours, walking home from school for example, thinking out this philosophy, it was my own…

You can, but when they call I'll say I don't know you. Or worse.

Yes. Every crazy idea I have now that probably won't work out, for example. I also have been funded and unable to meet important goals (power, size, cost) despite a lot of clever innovation. I carry those with me and if I ever think of a way to achieve the goals, I'll go back and do it.

No. When we started Apple we had no idea how incredible a day would someday come. Even a couple of years before Macintosh's would have a megabyte of RAM you could see that it would happen. That meant video editing ability. But nobody in Apple really sees it until it happens. Steve Jobs found better formulas for…

Gadget blogs like this one do a great job of finding those cool advances and mentioning them. It's my best source of gadget education going today. I don't have time so I need some trusted sources to look at the best products in depth before I'll get them. I don't make final judgements based on what I read. I like…

If you have college courses in CS, buy the books and spend day and night the few days before class going through the books and taking notes and answering questions and programming examples before the first class even starts. If you really want to do this in your life, that's what you should do, not just wait for the…