The talk, made available by the Center for Design Innovation
(via The Next Web), was from 1983's International Design
Conference at Aspen, at which a 20-something Steve Jobs spoke to
how personal computers would change the world forever. His
insight was eerily prescient as he described a day when email
would dominate the communications landscape, people would use
portable network-connected computing devices and users would be
able to interact with machines in new and innovative ways. In
about 20 minutes, Jobs summarized the then-current state of
personal computing, noting that the market was about to see a
significant boom. He also said that computers would likely be
poorly designed, a theory that became reality with the early
beige boxes of the 80s and early 90s, including Apple's own
Apple II. Jobs' vision of "good design" meant not only building
aesthetically pleasing machines, but devices that had a utility
of function like user-friendly GUIs akin to those seen on early
Macs. Near the end of his talk, Job