On Thursday, the Steve Jobs Archive unveiled a new online exhibit featuring Steve Jobs' presentation at the International Design Conference in 1983. The “Objects of Our Lives” exhibit features video footage of a 28-year-old Jobs explaining how technology would change the way we do things.
In the 55-minute video, Jobs talked about the history of computers, saying that kids back then were part of the “computer generation” and that “in their lifetimes, computers would become the mainstream medium of communication. He explained how computers could be used in education, financial trading, software development, and more. At the time, the Lisa computer had only just come out in January, so Jobs said it was made for creative design.
The exhibit also includes additional footage of other talks Jobs gave at the event. In one clip, Jobs describes the nature of early work on AI: “The human brain is very good at doing very complex things well,” Jobs said. “And now a lot of people are starting to look at the brain as a model for an architecture for building computers.”
The online exhibit, accompanied by an introduction by Jony Ive, also features video clips of Jobs speaking about simplicity of design, the future of personal computing and how computers can augment human capabilities. The exhibit is free to view at the Steve Jobs Archive.
