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Apple's Future Computer: The Knowledge Navigator
About this video
Apple's late-1980s Knowledge Navigator concept video, produced under John Sculley, showing a professor using a tablet-like device with a conversational software agent. It envisions hypertext, touchscreens and voice assistants.
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HN cites it as an early vision of personal software agents and AI assistants, and as a fun retro look at predicted computing.
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From the Hacker News discussion
These are always fun to watch. Here's one of Apple's versions if you're curious: [VIDEO] Microsoft still maintains its "home of the future". I think they update it every 3-5 years or so. Here's a newer one I found on youtube: [LINK] . It's pretty funny to see how the set, from what I can tell, is basically identical. And here's another Microsoft video about the "future of productivity" made back in 2011: [LINK]
Read original comment ↗Are you sure you're not thinking of Apple's Knowledge Navigator concept? [VIDEO] This video is allegedly from 1987. Edit: I changed the link to an expanded video from the early 90s(?) which contains the original video + some other mockup usage examples for OpenDoc
Read original comment ↗This. Exactly this. A personal software agent will make a lot of "smart" devices and many apps irrelevant. See Apple's vision from early ’90s: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗it's so funny he still talks about the worst most embarrassing apple ad of all time. [VIDEO] it's so bad it's awesome.
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