Why did Jobs bury a time capsule?

The "time capsule" buried in the ground 30 years ago by Apple founder Steve Jobs has finally been excavated. Because all the participants had forgotten where they had been buried, the rediscovery of the "time capsule" was delayed for 10 years. Among them, the one that attracted the most attention was the Apple Lisa mouse left by Jobs.

"Time capsule" is to put a representative item of modern invention into a container, seal it, bury it deep in the ground, and set a time when the "time capsule" can be opened in the future.

In 1983, Steve Jobs attended the Aspen International Design Conference in California. It is said that Steve Jobs delivered a keynote speech at the conference called "The Future Is Not the Past", in which he predicted the iPad, wireless network and even the App Store.

After the conference ended, Jobs and his friends decided to bury a huge "time capsule" together. This "time capsule" was supposed to be unearthed 10 years ago, but the people who participated in the burial of the capsule at that time forgot the burial location. Recently, this "time capsule" was rediscovered with the help of the National Geographic Channel's "Diggers" column.

The Lisa mouse gets the most attention.

The large tube-shaped, 4-meter-long capsule contained a variety of items left behind by the attendees, the most notable of which was the Lisa mouse. The Lisa mouse, named after his daughter, was named after Steve Jobs and was a rarity for the first generation of business computers. Although the mouse has changed in style over the past 30 years, it is not very different from the Lisa mouse in terms of internal construction.

This mouse will be auctioned.

Excavation crews said that because most of the items were packed in plastic bags, they were in good condition.

【Time Capsule】

A time capsule is a time when a representative item of modern invention is put into a container, sealed and buried deep underground, and a time is set to open the "time capsule" in the future.

[The meaning of time capsule].

There is an ancient custom in Western civilization that objects such as grain, newspapers, coins, etc., are buried before a major event takes place or an important building is laid, which is used to send some kind of message to an uncertain future. Later, the concept of buried objects was expanded, and objects representing human knowledge and achievements were also buried in the ground, to be opened thousands of years later.

Today, with the rapid development of information and the faster and faster pace of life, more and more people have discovered the indescribable fun and meaning of time capsules, and people hope to slow down, hoping to record their current life and mood and send them to the distant future.

Why did Jobs bury a time capsule? 】

The feature of the time capsule is that it is slow delivery, and the receiving time can be a longer time in the future. In doing this, Jobs personally thinks that he wants to prove many years later, how many years ago, he has confirmed some kind of invention and creation, and proved his prediction. Of course, with the death of Steve Jobs, this idea can only be used as an unverifiable conjecture.

According to the British "Daily Orange Post" on September 21**, the time capsule buried in the ground by Apple founder Steve Jobs 30 years ago was finally unearthed. Because all the participants forgot where they were buried, the time capsule "saw the light of day" was delayed for a full ten years.

Currently, Jobs' time capsule has been unearthed with the help of National Geographic's Diggers section. It is reported that the excavation of the time capsule took more than two hours from heavy machinery guessers, and the Aspen Historical Society also said that it would help the person in charge of the column to sort out the catalog list of the time capsule.