# International Design Conference at Aspen **Domain:** Design History / Computing History **Doc Type:** Event Node **Maturity:** Historical **Primary Source:** [[articles/The Art is Long|The Art is Long: Vespucci of Immortality]] **Related:** [[wiki/Steve Jobs|Steve Jobs]], [[wiki/Longitudinal Person Model|Longitudinal Person Model]], [[wiki/Psychological Continuity|Psychological Continuity]] --- ## Definition The **International Design Conference at Aspen** was a design conference at which Steve Jobs spoke in 1983 about the future of personal computing. ## Corpus Significance The relevant passage describes a computer carried through a life, exposed to a person's underlying principles and way of seeing, and later able to answer questions after that person's death. The corpus interprets the functional shape of this description as an early [[wiki/Longitudinal Person Model|longitudinal person-model]]. ## Evidentiary Boundary Jobs did not describe a brain-computer interface or demonstrate consciousness transfer. The importance of the remarks is architectural: lifetime acquisition, abstraction of principles, and posthumous queryability appear together in one early specification.