14 MACWORLD JUNE 2019
MACUSER TIM COOK’S TIME 100 INTERVIEW“I’m not saying everyone needs to
become a programmer. I’m saying that
like the basics of mathematics and
history and so forth, it’s a core skill that
kids need to have. And equally
important in our view is creativity skills.
“As math and science has been
recognized as being very important,
unfortunately the arts have been gutted
from too many of our schools. So basic
creativity skills are not taught in a lot of
schools. So we’ve designed our own
curriculum called ‘Everyone can Create’
and we’ve made it available to all
schools in the world. Many many
schools are now picking this up.”ON HEALTH
“We began to recognize it was a big
idea to monitor your body on a real-time
basis, versus just going to the doctor
once a year and having different vital
signs checked.
“So with the Watch we focused
initially on wellness and heart. Last year,
as you know, we launched the Series 4
that has an EKG in it.
“I’m getting tons of notes from all the
different countries that we’ve launched
in, saying ‘oh my god, I found out I had
this serious problem...I went to the
doctor and he or she told me I would
have died if I wouldn’t have known this.’
This is what the people are telling me. I
think it’s a big idea to monitor your body.
As we pull this string more, we
recognize more and more things we can
uniquely do.
“We’re at the early stages of this
with the Watch, and obviously we’re
working on a bunch more things. I do
think there will be a day we look back
and say Apple’s greatest contribution to
mankind has been in healthcare. I think
that will happen.”That’s a huge statement. One could
legitimately credit Apple with the “home
computer” as a very concept, rather than
computers only being for business. Then
the iPhone changed our expectations for
smartphones forever. To say these
accomplishments will be eclipsed by
Apple’s contribution to healthcare is bold.
Apple would have to do vastly more than it
has done so far for this to be even
remotely true.