On Thursday’s Fresh Air, Farhad Manjoo explains how Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are heading in new directions — and encroaching on each other’s territory — as they each try to expand their customer base.

kateoplis:

You’re so cute, Japan. 

tomorrow: How Steve Jobs revolutionized the personal computer.

Steve Jobs on Fresh Air in 1996. [full interview here.] On Tuesday, we’ll talk with Walter Isaacson about his biography “Steve Jobs.”

In my perspective … science and computer science is a liberal art, it’s something everyone should know how to use, at least, and harness in their life. It’s not something that should be relegated to 5 percent of the population over in the corner. It’s something that everybody should be exposed to and everyone should have mastery of to some extent, and that’s how we viewed computation and these computation devices.

— In 1996, Steve Jobs spoke to Terry Gross. You can listen to the full conversation here.