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Apple's Future Computer: The Knowledge Navigator

Blake Patterson

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Apple's 1987 concept video envisions a future tablet computer with a conversational AI assistant, hypertext, and touch interface.

This is Apple's famed early '90s "Knowledge Navigator" video, the brainchild of then CEO John Sculley. It Apple's look into the future. More on this here: is.gd/OXqQ4a

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1 person recommends this, 1 disputes it

What people say. Highly cited as an early and remarkably accurate vision of modern tablet computing, voice assistants, and collaborative digital workspaces.

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