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Steve Jobs Knew the Moment the Future Had Arrived. It's Calling Again
In a recently uncovered 1983 speech, Steve Jobs predicted the ubiquity of personal computers. In 2024, AI has brought us to another inflection point.
The video of this speech is the centerpiece of an online exhibit called The Objects of Our Life, presented by the Steve Jobs Archive, the ambitious history project devoted to telling the story of Apple’s fabled cofounder. When the exhibit went live earlier this month—after the discovery of a long-forgotten VHS tape in Jobs’ personal collection—I found it not only a compelling reminder of the late CEO, but pertinent to our own time, when another new technology is arriving with equal promise and peril. In the interview, which I published as a Q&A in the 20th anniversary edition of my book Insanely Great, he explained why the unique moment of emerging digital technology led him to obsessively build this new machine—even though it meant, he told me, putting a romantic relationship on hold.
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