Decades before the first iPhone, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs expressed his vision for the future of personal computing.
In a 1985 speech, Jobs imagined a world that now seems almost possible thanks to innovations in generative AI. Despite personal computing at the time being “in the tank,” he hoped it would someday have “tremendous momentum.” Even before the 1990s tech boom and bust, he predicted a future with “free intellectual energy” and an era where it would be possible to use computers and source material to ask questions to the world’s brightest minds — both past and present.
“My hope is someday when the next Aristotle is alive, we can capture the underlying worldview of that Aristotle in a computer,” Jobs said. “And someday some student will be able to not only read the words Aristotle wrote but ask Aristotle a question and get an answer. That’s what I hope that we can do. So this is a beginning I think.”
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