The Center for Design Innovation has recently made available - via The Next Web - a 1983 speech which Apple's late CEO Steve Jobs delivered at the International Design Conference at Aspen, when he was in his twenties.

In his nearly 20-minute talk, Jobs summed up the state of personal computing as it was at that time; and, noting that the market was headed towards a notable boom, expounded on the ways in which personal computers would alter the technology landscape forever.

Whatever the young Jobs said in his speech turned out to be eerily prophetic, as he projected that emails would become a dominant medium of communication in the future, and portable network-connected computing devices will be widely used.

Further predicting that it will become increasingly possible for the users to interact with computers in new and innovative ways, Jobs also talked about futuristic technology such as artificial intelligence and predictive computing.

Pointing out that it was a `problem' that great minds - like Plato and Aristotle - could not be tapped once they are dead, Jobs proposed a machine which could be capable of collecting data and compiling it into some kind of artificial intelligence.

Noting that the prospect of such machines, "in the next 50 to 100 years," was a "really exciting" one, Jobs said that these machines would be able to "capture an underlying spirit, or an underlying set of principles, or an underlying way of looking at the world" long after a person is dead.