Watch Steve Jobs explain AI and the prospect a year before the Mac.

Steve Jobs poses with the original Macintosh, one year after his Aspen speech
The Steve Jobs Archive released a fascinating video showing a 28-year old Jobs explaining computers to an audience of skeptics in 1983. Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim Cook, and Jony ive launched the Steve Jobs Archive in 2022. It has been a goal to be an “authoritative home for Steve’s Story” and includes video, audio and text resources. It has now released “The Objects of Our Life”, a 55-minute video that shows a young Steve Jobs giving one of his first big speeches. Jony Ive explains in his introduction that this was the early days of Apple and yet Jobs was predicting a future he would later help create. Steve Jobs at Aspen, 1983. “I find it astounding how profound his understanding of the dramatic changes about to occur as the computer became widely accessible,” writes Ive. “Of Course, beyond being prophetic, he defined products that would forever change our culture and lives.” This Steve Jobs Archive feature includes Ive’s introduction as well as much more of this 1983 International Design Conference speech in Aspen. There’s a 55-minute video plus over 2,000 words of background. And an even rarer set of clips of Jobs demonstrating the Lisa on the night before his speech, where he mentions Artificial Intelligence decades before Apple Intelligence was created.