{"id":23783,"date":"2016-03-20T23:50:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T06:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/steve-jobs-gave-an-interview-in-1996-with-a-bunch-of-predictions-about-the-future-it-turns-out-he-nailed-it"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:24","slug":"steve-jobs-gave-an-interview-in-1996-with-a-bunch-of-predictions-about-the-future-it-turns-out-he-nailed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/steve-jobs-gave-an-interview-in-1996-with-a-bunch-of-predictions-about-the-future-it-turns-out-he-nailed-it","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs gave an interview in 1996 with a bunch of predictions about the future \u2014 it turns out he nailed it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/steve-jobs-gave-an-interview-in-1996-with-a-bunch-of-predictions-about-the-future-it-turns-out-he-nailed-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Steve Jobs was not yet back at Apple when he gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/1996\/02\/jobs-2\/\">a remarkably prescient interview to Wired\u2019s website<\/a> the same year. Although the iMac, iPod, and iPhone were still years away, and Jobs was working at NeXT, he clearly saw where the computing industry was headed.<\/p>\n<p>And although his later work at Apple clearly influenced the way things turned out, he still offered a slew of predictions that are shockingly accurate today.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what Jobs got right:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nine-predictions-about-the-internet-steve-jobs-nailed-20-years-ago-2016-3?utm_content=buffer94eb4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nine-predictions-about-the-in...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Steve Jobs was not yet back at Apple when he gave a remarkably prescient interview to Wired\u2019s website the same year. Although the iMac, iPod, and iPhone were still years away, and Jobs was working at NeXT, he clearly saw where the computing industry was headed. And although his later work at Apple clearly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67950,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783\/revisions\/67950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}