“Lost” Steve Jobs Speech: Wireless Networking,iPad,&App Store (1983)

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When I listen to the audio in the article I can't but wonder how Steve Jobs was so much ahead of his time. And he wasn't even a programmer, yet he was able to see a lot of the stuff that was about to happen in the near future.

Link of audio for the lazy: http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/62010118/download?client_id...

Fun Excerpt:

Steve Jobs: "What is a computer program? Do you know what a computer program is?"

Audience: [Quiet. No answer]

Steve Jobs: "Anybody? No? Sort of?"

Steve Jobs: "It's an odd thing [...] computer programs [...] they're simply ideas expressed on paper." :)

Just from reading the summary this is really great. Steve Jobs did a lot for computing and for software. I'm an Android "fanboy" and I really hate what Apple is doing these days, but his contribution to digital life today was significant and undeniable.

What I respect the most from him is his persistence. I think most people wouldn't really have that strength to go back to the company who fired them, and revive them from near bankruptcy, and do the things they dreamed about a long time ago.

That's very respectable.

This is a great point. Especially seeing him work so hard while he was Sick. Very. Driven. And these products were like gifts, when we consider what all of the nay-sayers wanted to force-feed us (lookin at lazy record companies, phone-companies, and box-y PC companies, ect).

This is really amazing. Surprised that this doesn't move higher up the HN front page.

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