Walter Ian Kaye

Hypercreative inventor, Mac/Unix/Web techie, songwriter, whole-grain baker, hemidemisemipescatarian, and virgin until marriage.

[Walter Ian Kaye @boodlums]

San Francisco #Matcha Festival 🍵😋 #food #tea @goricegirl @msjodibee @gypsyheart @ecovegangal https://t.co/MxhwJHLpZ2

[Walter Ian Kaye @boodlums]

@StephChuang Hello my fellow Bach fan 😃🎵

[Walter Ian Kaye @boodlums]

@hollyrpeete I just got a funny idea: edit Sybil Fawlty on the phone saying "Oh I know, I know" into "Ain't No Sunshine" 😂

[Walter Ian Kaye @boodlums]

@ELittlechild Happy belated birthday Ellie! (My Twitter app on iPhone no longer tweets and I finally got around to posting from my iPad that updated to "X". I want Twitter back! lol)

[Walter Ian Kaye @boodlums]

@MichaelFairman Yellow, waxy buildup. Yep, I watched it.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

The most creative use of a drone yet.

[Walter Ian Kaye @boodlums]

@brooklyn_silzer Happy birthday!

[Walter Ian Kaye @boodlums]

Such a visionary! When he describes what will be someday, now we can name the app, lol. We've come a long way.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

June 1983. A 28-year-old Steve Jobs walks into a design conference in Aspen, Colorado. He asks the room who owns a personal computer. Nobody raises their hand. He says “Uh-oh.”

Then he spends the next 55 minutes describing the next four decades of technology.

Jobs told the audience Apple’s strategy was to “put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you, that you can learn how to use in 20 minutes… with a radio link in it so you don’t have to hook up to anything.” That’s an iPhone. In 1983. The Mac hadn’t even shipped yet.

He described an MIT project that sent a camera truck down every street in Aspen, photographed every intersection, and built a virtual walkthrough on a computer screen. Google Street View launched 24 years later. He said office networking was about 5 years away and home networking 10 to 15 years out. The web went mainstream in the mid-90s, about 12 years later. Dead on.

He described software being sent electronically over phone lines, with free previews and credit card payment. That’s the App Store, 25 years before it launched. He even compared it to the music industry and said software needed “the equivalent of a radio station” for free sampling. Apple built the iTunes Music Store 20 years later.

The AI prediction is the one that hits different now. Near the end, Jobs talked about machines that could capture a person’s “underlying spirit” or “way of looking at the world,” so that after they died, you could ask the machine questions and maybe get answers. He said 50 to 100 years. ChatGPT arrived in about 40.

The weird part is this speech was lost for nearly 30 years. The full hour-long recording only surfaced in 2012 when a blogger got a cassette tape from someone who attended the original conference. The Steve Jobs Archive didn’t release actual video footage until July 2024.

His timelines were consistently too fast. He wanted the “computer in a book” within the 1980s. Apple’s first attempt was the Macintosh Portable in 1989, which weighed 16 pounds and cost $6,500. The iPad arrived in 2010, 27 years late. He guessed voice recognition was about a decade away. Siri launched in 2011, nearly 30 years later. The vision was right every time. The clock was wrong every time.

Apple was doing about $1 billion a year in revenue when Jobs gave this talk, with under 5,000 employees. Today it’s worth $3.7 trillion.

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

There're two types of cats..🐈🐾😅

[Walter Ian Kaye @boodlums]

@VidMlakar @sciencegirl Drink poison? What, and expect someone else to die?

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A giant 3D Akita Inu billboard in Japan

📹rainbowholic

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This is awesome

[Walter Ian Kaye @boodlums]

Meep meep!

[Ted Allen @TheTedAllen]

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States!

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@Brink_Thinker There are limits on mailpiece dimensions. What's he going to do with the undersized pieces? Ergo, this is fake.

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@gimpymann @HustleBitch_ I think it has more salt.

[Walter Ian Kaye @boodlums]

@cyntaymd @HustleBitch_ @johnkiowa Theres no practical difference between HFCS and sugar in your soda. The acids break down sucrose while the bottle sits on the shelf, so you've got invert syrup in both. Your body metabolizes them the same way. Stop imagining sugar as better. It's not.

[Walter Ian Kaye @boodlums]

@kevin_nealon WTH is a throw up bowl? I haven't thrown up since 1980. 🤷‍♂️

[Sovey @SoveyX]

This lady was doing snow angels and then her horse decided to join her.

That’s it, I’m getting a horse.

[Walter Ian Kaye @boodlums]

@WilliamShatner @KelloggsUS 🎵You ate a lot of junk food that is stuck inside your gut, and now you're sittin' on the can / You need those two scoops of raisins in a package of Kellogg's Raisin Bran🎵

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Cats secretly rule the world.