Apr 29, 2021 09:17:00

Valuable footage of an interview with young Steve Jobs is now available

Apple founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, has released an interview in 1981 on YouTube channel

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Steve Jobs Interview --2/18/1981 --YouTube


On the left is Jobs, who was 25 years old at the time of February 18, 1981, when the interview was recorded. The wall has the colorful Apple logo that was used until 1998.

The interviewer's first question was, 'Steve, what needs did you have in mind when you started developing personal computers?' Jobs, on the other hand, said, 'When the first electric motors were invented in the late 1800s, electric motors were huge and powerful. Was invented, and it was possible to put power in the place where it was needed, when it was needed. ' Similarly, he answered that the beginning of PC development was to spread the computer, which was used for large-scale applications such as ballistics calculation in war and meteorology, to general households at the beginning of the invention.

In addition, Jobs dared to avoid calling home-use computers 'home computers' because he saw homes as a place where computers could play an active role, not as a market.

At that time, computers were already widespread in universities and research institutes, but it was a little expensive for ordinary households to buy computers, and there was no use for them to buy them at a high cost.

Under such circumstances, Jobs explained the reason for aiming to develop computers for home use, 'For example, if you measure the energy of creatures going from point A to point B and rank them by species, Condor wins and humans are big. Suppose you lose, but if you use a bicycle, humans may win. What we want to make is a 21st century bicycle that expands human intelligence. '

Jobs also cut into the issue of privacy, which is common to the present age. 'Recently, the issue of privacy is often talked about in the media. People often have an image of computers in the science fiction work'

1984 '. It's a very huge and centralized computer, but we've found a computer that's big and heavy enough for people to hold, and if they don't like it, it's thrown out of the window. That means that PCs are very democratic and decentralized, and, contrary to 1984, they can enrich people's lives and give them the freedom to do what they love. ' Did.

In addition, the interviewer asked, 'Do you think people will be able to use computers better in the future?' In connection with children's familiarity with video games and the like.

Jobs, on the other hand, said he was confident, 'In fact, the phenomenon is happening not only in games but also in automatic bank counters. Whether it's an intelligent game or an intelligent bank counter, people As we become more and more accustomed to interacting with intelligent devices, it will transform things into cultural ones. '

In addition, this video seems to have been shot through on the assumption that it will be edited later, and Jobs is not convinced of his answer and asks for a retake with a bitter smile ...

When I took off my glasses, the interviewer told me to put them on, and I hurriedly put on my glasses again.

After the recording has settled down, Jobs' real face that can not be seen in the edited main part of the interview is also included, such as the appearance of the staff asking 'Did you take a good picture?'