Apple's Future Computer: The Knowledge Navigator

These are always fun to watch. Here's one of Apple's versions if you're curious: ▶ this 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]

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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: ▶ this video

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Are you sure you're not thinking of Apple's Knowledge Navigator concept? ▶ this 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

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it's so funny he still talks about the worst most embarrassing apple ad of all time. ▶ this video it's so bad it's awesome.

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