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