Ondrej Holzman A very interesting audio recording from 1983 saw the light of day, on which Steve Jobs talks about the networking of computers, the concept of the App Store and also the device that finally turned into the iPad after 27 years. During the half-hour recording, Jobs perfectly demonstrated his visionary talent.
The recording comes from 1983, when Jobs spoke at the Center for Design Innovation. Its first part, where a number of topics were discussed from wireless computers to the project that later became Google StreetView, was already known, but Marcel Brown now released an as yet unknown 30 minutes after the keynote address.
In them, Jobs talks about the need to introduce a universal network standard so that all computers can communicate with each other without problems. "We make a lot of computers that are built for stand-alone use - one computer, one person," Jobs said. “But it won't be too long before there is a group that wants to connect all these computers. Computers will become tools for communication. In the next five years, the standards experienced so far will evolve, because currently all computers speak a different language." said the co-founder of Apple in 1983.
Jobs followed up on the topic of connecting computers by describing a network experiment that Xerox was conducting at the time. "They took a hundred computers and connected them together on a local computer network, which was really just a cable that carried all the information back and forth," Jobs recalled, explaining the concept of hubs that worked between computers. Bulletin boards, which later evolved into message boards and then websites, informed users of current information and topics of interest.
It was this Xerox experiment that gave Jobs the idea that connecting computers would bring together users with similar interests and hobbies. "We're about five years away from solving the problem of connecting these computers in offices," Jobs said "and we are about ten years away from connecting them at home as well. A lot of people are working on it, but it's a complicated matter.” Jobs' estimate was almost accurate at the time. In 1993, the Internet began to take off, and in 1996 it already penetrated into households.
Then the then twenty-seven-year-old Jobs moved on to a completely different topic, but a very interesting one. "Apple's strategy is very simple. We want to put an incredibly cool computer in a book that you could carry with you and learn to operate in 20 minutes. That's what we want to do, and we want to do it in this decade." announced Jobs at the time, and was most likely referring to the iPad, although it finally came to the world much later. "At the same time, we want to make this device with a radio connection so that you don't have to connect it to anything and still be connected to other computers."
That being said, Jobs was a bit off on his estimate of when Apple would introduce such a device, by roughly 27 years, but it's even more fascinating to imagine that Jobs had in mind a groundbreaking device, which the iPad undoubtedly is. such a row of years.
One reason the iPad didn't come sooner was the absence of technology. In short, Apple did not have the necessary technology to fit everything into such a "book", so it decided to put its best technology at the time into the Lisa computer. At that moment, however, Jobs, as he himself said, certainly did not give up on the fact that one day he would get all this into a small book and sell it for under a thousand dollars.
And to add to Jobs's visionary nature, he predicted the future of software shopping back in 1983. He said that transferring software on discs was inefficient and a waste of time, so he began working on the concept that would later become the App Store. He didn't like the long process with the discs, where it took a long time for the software to be written to the disc, then shipped, and then again for the user to install it.
"We are going to transmit the software electronically over the telephone line. So when you want to buy some software, we send it directly from computer to computer,” revealed Steve Jobs' plans for Apple, which later actually came true.
You can listen to the full audio recording (in English) below, the passage mentioned above starts around minute 21.
I read that in the book Steve Jobs, here at least you can see how brilliant he was.
It's a shame he was, I'd like to write that he's still brilliant... :(
It's a shame he was, I'd like to write that he's still brilliant... :(
It's a shame he was, I'd like to write that he's still brilliant... :(
It's a shame he was, I'd like to write that he's still brilliant... :(
Otherwise, the tablet was already "predicted" in 1968 by Stanley Kubrick in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey ;)