2024-11-26
38 分钟Before Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, there was Adam Osborne and Jerry Sanders. You may not be familiar with their names, but the brash business leaders of Silicon Valley of the early 1980s understood that technology had the capacity to change all of our lives. In this episode, we explore what they got right, what they got wrong, and how lessons learned from early Silicon Valley might help us learn how to navigate the advent of artificial intelligence. For more episodes like this one, search for "60 Minutes: A Second Look" and follow the show, wherever you get your podcasts. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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In 1982, 60 Minutes took a trip to a lush green region of California.
Not long ago, this valley was heavy with plum orchards.
Prunes was its heavy industry.
So much for what God and nature hath wrought.
By the time Morley Safer arrived, the valley was generating a different kind of green.
This valley seems to hatch its baby millionaires at practically the rate it spews out its silicon chips.
The story was called Valley Boys, as in Silicon Valley, and it featured some of the most cutting edge technology at the time.
The head of the 1981 fair was a small portable computer that would fit under an airplane seat.
It's called the Osborne, after its creator, Adam Osborne.
Well, what I'm doing is I'm giving you the fundamental machine that does what most people want done.
Osborne's invention was one of the first mass marketed portable computers, part of a wave of technology that inspired both hope and trepidation.
Do we have to use them in business?
In the working environment, yes.
There is no escaping it.
A lot of this is reminiscent of conversations we're having today about artificial intelligence.
Some of the same predictions, some of the same fears.
I mean, when new technology comes on the scene, there's often a mixture of fear and fascination that it's greeted with.