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A 1983 speech by Steve Jobs at the International Design Conference in Aspen — long considered lost and only fully resurfaced on video in 2024 — contains strikingly accurate predictions of smartphones, the App Store, wireless internet, digital mapping, and generative AI, delivered two decades before most of these technologies existed. The speech, now preserved by the Steve Jobs Archive, reveals that Jobs' legendary foresight wasn't just about products, but about a fundamental reimagining of computing as a communications medium that would reshape daily life.