Lost Steve Jobs 1983 Speech Reveals His Vision for the Future

Steve Jobs was an innovator who changed the world with his visions.

Now the full speech that the Apple co-founder gave in 1983 has been released in which Jobs talks about what exactly he was seeing for the future.

The speech titled "The Future Isn't What It Used To Be" was first previewed to the public in August but only the first 20 minutes was made available by the Center of Design Innovation. To the delight of Job's fans around the internet, the rest of the hour-long recording has just been released.

The remaining pieces of the missing speech were put together by blogger Marcel Brown who used a cassette recording of the event to finish the rest. The speech is available on Brown's blog.

So what were Jobs' predictions for the future in 1983?

Job opened his speech by talking about the computer generation to come. "The kids growing up now are definitely products of the computer generation, and in their lifetimes the computer will become the dominant medium," .

Jobs then talked about the personal computer and Apple's goals:  "Apple's strategy is really simple. What we want to do is we want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes. That's what we want to do and we want to do it this decade."

He then delved into the topic of wireless connectivity and the internet saying, "And we really want to do it with a radio link in it so you don't have to hook up to anything and you're in communication with all of these larger databases and other computers."
Jobs also said that in the future "people could be walking around anywhere and pick up their e-mail."

He also was beginning to find the problem with voice recognition. "This stuff is hard," Jobs said which can possibly be linked to the trouble people experience with Apple's voice assistant Siri on their iPhones.

It appears that much of Job's vision for the future was close to the reality of our modern world.