After 30 years, lost ‘Steve Jobs Time Capsule’ finally recovered

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“We can assume that Steve Jobs’ 30-year-old mouse is in good condition. But what about the six pack of beer?” Daniel Terdiman reports for CNET. “In 1983, at the close of the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colo., organizers buried a time capsule, known officially as the Aspen Time Tube. Many attendees contributed various items, like a Rubik’s cube, name tags, and even a Moody Blues recording, but because the late Apple co-founder donated the Lisa mouse he’d used during his presentation at the conference, it has become known as the ‘Steve Jobs Time Capsule.'”

“The idea was to dig it up in 2000, but fate got in the way,” Terdiman reports. “Essentially, it was lost. Though organizers recalled approximately where the tube was buried, they didn’t know the exact spot, in part because of a significant re-landscaping of the area where it was hidden. And so for 30 years, the Steve Jobs Time Capsule was hidden underground, unavailable to the many historians eager to see what was inside.”

Terdiman reports, “Until now, that is. Thanks to the participation of the National Geographic Channel show ‘Diggers,’ the Aspen Time Tube has finally surfaced.”

MacDailyNews Take: 30 years ago, we bet nobody thought there’d every be a TV show dedicated to digging things up – or a National Geographic Channel, for that matter.

Terdiman reports, “At the 1983 conference, Jobs had spoken about his predictions for the technology of the future and had then given out cassette tapes of the talk to anyone who wanted one. Those tapes had largely disappeared until last year, when one turned up, allowing blogger Marcel Brown to write about what came to be known as the ‘lost’ Steve Jobs speech. During that speech, which was tied to ‘The Future isn’t What it Used to Be’ theme of the conference, Jobs seems to have predicted a slew of future technologies, including the iPad, wireless networking, and even Apple’s App Store.”

Read more, and see the photos, in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: They don’t refer to him as a visionary for nothin’.

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    1. They could dig up Bill Gates old tapes and prefer much just hear his main concerns what he was going to have for lunch that day, a little belch & fart and nothing along the visionary lines than maybe flying cars. The Little Emperor never owned clothes. Neither did the Big chair throwing Emperor with an uncanny resemblance to overall stupidity and tech cluelessness.

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  6. I’m mixed on iOS 7. I love the designs of the apps themselves, and I love the lock screen, but I really can’t stand the homescreen because of the folder transparency and icons. I find that setting the homescreen wallpaper to a grey or blue-grey colors mitigates the folder issue, but I still can’t get past the icons. The Safari icon makes my eyes bleed

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  7. The giveaway from the story is how logical thinking and observation of what has gone on before and now and then what will likely be the later result is the basis for continual improvement.

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  10. @ Nut
    Never did think there was anything of substance in your complaints. But now that I have iOS 7, that is even more so.
    Really – sincerely – I’m looking at these icons and thinking, “What the heck is he on about? What is the big deal?”

    And, of course, there is no way we’d ever get TEN people to all be totally happy with every single aspect of the UI, never mind 100 million.

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    1. Downgrading is a stupid idea. Not the least of witch is because the firmware, once upgraded can not be downgraded just by restoring from iTunes. The firmware for iOS 7 might work with iOS 6 (good chance not). There is a way to do it though, it’s dangerous and you risk borking your device anytime you try to mess with the firmware.

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