The author reflects on Steve Jobs' 1983 speech at the International Design Conference, where Jobs criticized top designers for focusing on cars and buildings while ignoring the upcoming new object in human lives: computers. Jobs predicted that people would spend hours a day interacting with computers, turning them from mere tools into an environment covering work, education, and home. The author uses this as a metaphor for the current AI wave: models are shipping regardless of whether they make people sharper or duller. This time, the object reshaping human environment isn't plastic or glass, but language, which sits directly inside the act of thinking.
r0ck3t23 · x · 2026-08-05
作者回顾了乔布斯 1983 年在国际设计大会上的演讲，当时乔布斯指出最优秀的设计师都在造汽车和建筑，却忽略了即将占据人类生活的新客体——计算机。乔布斯预言人们每天将花数小时与计算机交互，它将从单纯的工具演变为全面覆盖工作、教育和家庭的环境。
作者借此隐喻当前的 AI 浪潮：无论模型是否让人变得更敏锐，它们都已被广泛部署。这一次，重塑人类生活环境的客体不再是塑料和玻璃，而是语言，它正直接嵌入并影响人类的思考过程。
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