film · September 2026

A 28-year-old Steve Jobs gives a talk at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen

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Steve Jobs’ 1983 Aspen talk argues that computers are a new, fast, and highly adaptable technology that will become the dominant medium of communication. He urges designers to seize the opportunity to make personal computers not just functional, but beautiful and well-designed, framing Apple’s mission as doing it “great” rather than “so-so.”