> Jobs, conceptually articulating what would become the Internet in 1985:
Which wasn't a huge prediction; CompuServe's consumer offering had been available for years (and they had at least one smaller national competitor, The Source), and the BBS scene including BBS networks was already a thing. The value of computers as communication devices especially in a network with wide penetration wasn't something that the many observers at the time who made similar comments were extrapolating from scant evidence, its something that people had concrete experience with in the mid-1980s where the trend toward it becoming a key use of computers was widely recognized in social commentary, fiction, etc.
Which wasn't a huge prediction; CompuServe's consumer offering had been available for years (and they had at least one smaller national competitor, The Source), and the BBS scene including BBS networks was already a thing. The value of computers as communication devices especially in a network with wide penetration wasn't something that the many observers at the time who made similar comments were extrapolating from scant evidence, its something that people had concrete experience with in the mid-1980s where the trend toward it becoming a key use of computers was widely recognized in social commentary, fiction, etc.