I posted an idea yesterday about having Steve Jobs create a series of videos targeted towards educating and inspiring young people. A day later, I’m modifying the idea — I think Ken Burns should do it.

If Ken takes the project on Steve needs only to cooperate.

As it turns out there is a lot of historical footage of Jobs — which might supply a good percentage of the content. The SmartBrief on Leadership newsletter published a link this morning to a series of videos on a Washington Post site. Interviews with Jobs in the early 90’s included. The original material was part of a PBS special “Triumph of the Nerds.” Another clip is from PBS’s Wall Street Week with host Louis Rukeyser. Note to PBS de-funding advocates — would these kinds of interviews have been done and preserved by a commercial network?

There is a wealth of existing video to draw from, but it would be more powerful as a learning tool if combined with retrospective comments from Steve (and perhaps others). I wonder if this is something we could get Ken Burns interested in doing? Imagine the innovator of the documentary form taking on the greatest innovator of modern times…to teach the next generation about innovation.