The Steve Jobs Archive has released never-before-seen footage online of a 1983 speech the Apple founder gave, in which Jobs talks about the future of computers and how they would completely change everyday life.
Steve Jobs was in charge of Apple for a long time. That much good came from that is still evident today, because Apple is one of the most valuable companies in the world. To become that big, you have to be able to predict a little bit what the future will look like and what products people will use.
In a previously unpublished video from 1983 Jobs speaks at the International Design Conference. It was a year before Apple launched the Mac, but the video shows that Steve Jobs already foresaw how important computers would become.
‘Absurd claims for that time’
He predicted for example that computers would outsell cars, which few believed at the time. He also said that people would spend more time at their computers than they would driving cars. “In the early 1980s, these were absurd claims,” writes the Steve Jobs Archive. But the Apple founder saw the development as “inevitable.”
Of go video can be viewed on the Steve Jobs Archive website and lasts 55 minutes. At the top of the page is a short clip with some highlights, then follows a story about the speech and after scrolling down a bit you will find the video of the full speech.
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Source: www.bright.nl
