"In an article in the Sunday New York Times, reporter Nick Bilton says he once asked Jobs “So, your kids must love the iPad?” Jobs response: 'They haven’t used it. We limit how much technology our kids use at home.'" Thanks to cutting-edge, high-tech journalistic techniques*, San Francisco is able to report the rest of the list of things that Steve Jobs and his wife forbade their daughters from all of the following:
20. Palm Pilot 5000 Personal Data Assistants
19. Grain silos, excluding corn silos
18. Abacuses
17. Gas-powered chainsaws
16. Wax phonograph players
15. Novelty Russian nesting dolls in the form of former Soviet leaders
14. Contraptions, miscellaneous.
13. Drawing compasses
12. Cotton gins
11. Mechanical Turks
10. Pot stills
9. Spoons
8. Quill pens
7. Wheels and axels
6. Pulleys
5. Inclined Planes
4. Wedges
3. Screws
2. Levers
1. Google Glass
*We made up some stuff we thought was funny.
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