Steve Jobs Seemingly Predicted iPad in Rare 1983 Recording

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I predict one day that micro chips will be installed underneath each sidewalk... so that when certain glasses or 'augmented' lens are used, virtual signs and valuable information will be visible only through those lens but nothing with the naked eye. Yeah yeah google glasses but I THOUGHT OF IT FIRST 2 years ago. It's not fair..
 
Why is this such a surprise?
In the 1960's they predicted a computer in every household.

Jobs' prediction was tens of years after this 1960's prediction and I don't see an article on it but suddenly when a successful someone has said the same thing in a less relevant time it becomes much more popular. -.-
 
All Jobs really talks about is everything people in the tech industry were working on, or planning, or imagining could be. I think (and it's just my opinion, same as the article) he was talking about the MacBook that they were working on releasing.

If anything, I think Bill Gates was the one to really predict the iPad in the joint interview he and Steve Jobs did for All Things Digital. I think Jobs had a time of it trying to keep a poker face knowing that Apple was working on what Gates predicted. Check it out....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Z7eal4uXI

 
A lot of other people predicted this stuff even earlier than 1983. Giving Jobs credit for it for supposedly predicting all of this in 1983 is like saying that Apple had GUIs before Xerox.
 
That's why Steve Jobs was Steve Jobs, and the people here are just posting about Steve Jobs. He saw things, and in some cases, help make them happen.

 
This is some grade-A Steve Jobs e-peen spam...

What part of his description is specific to the iPad that you claim he is talking about?
All of these ideas are just describing generic laptops (a book shape, radio link).
 
And sci-fi novel/screen-writers predicted this before he was 10 years old. Big whoop. Steve Jobs thought of things, he accomplished things. But he was also a wretched human being that cared nothing for how he treated other people, only what his inflated ego and spoiled-brat attitudes desired at that minute. I wish I could get my money back for his biography. Turned page after page waiting for that moment where you find out that he was actually a caring person who only came off as an awful person. Nope.
 
[citation][nom]zargonog[/nom]This is some grade-A Steve Jobs e-peen spam...What part of his description is specific to the iPad that you claim he is talking about? All of these ideas are just describing generic laptops (a book shape, radio link).[/citation]
Clearly they're trying to make the case that tablets, smartphones, and other pad-like devices are stolen technology. There is no other conclusion to draw from this. Jobs invented everything!! We might as well close down the patent office because everything that could be invented now is just stolen from Jobs. We've really gotten to that level of absurdity now.
 
It's no secret that a lot of inovations that we use today come from scifi shows and moives that inspire people to go out and invent these devices that they saw many years ago as a kid watching these scifi movies and shows. So the real credit should go to the writers of these scifi shows and moves, because they were the true pioneers that inspired generations of people to develope a lot of these devices that we have today.
 
They had media streaming tablets (which is about all tablets are good for) in Space Odyssey 2001, which came out in 1969. Unfortunately 2001 Space Odyssey also predicted AI and a much more vigorous space program by 2001. It was wrong on all 3 counts (even wrong on tablets as working media tablets still took another 8.5 years to be released).
 
[citation][nom]teh_chem[/nom]Turned page after page waiting for that moment where you find out that he was actually a caring person who only came off as an awful person. Nope.[/citation]

If you don't know Steve's good points, and whom he was a good person to, then you need to re-read the Biography because you didn't read shit. Steve Jobs has a long history of being a good person. His asshole moments dominate the conversation because they stand out and because they attract more attention when writers cover them, that's the only reason why.
 
[citation][nom]gfair[/nom]If you don't know Steve's good points, and whom he was a good person to, then you need to re-read the Biography because you didn't read shit. Steve Jobs has a long history of being a good person. His asshole moments dominate the conversation because they stand out and because they attract more attention when writers cover them, that's the only reason why.[/citation]
Na man, he was an asshole. I wonder if he even left any money for his kids he never wanted to be with.
 
" computer in a book that you can carry around with you"

Like someone else said, this sounds an awful lot like a laptop.
I mean, macbook ? Helloooo ....

Who could mistake that for a tablet ?
 
[citation][nom]nbelote[/nom]What about this thing from Star Trek TOS:http://farm5.static.flickr.com/412 [...] 58fbb1.jpgI'm fairly sure it was a computer, and quite wireless.[/citation]

Yup and TNG/VOY/DS9/ENT "Pads", but of course this is all after 1983.
 
"He correctly predicted rise in popularity of personal computers more than 25 years ago."

Also Doug Engelbarts demo in 1968:
http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html - predates this prediction by 25 years,why do you not write about him, Toms is so selective in its praise and seems to disregard those that predicted the whole shebang long, long before Jobs
 
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