Apple 1987 introduction to Knowledge Navigator and 2011′s introduction to Siri
Apple’s 1987 Knowledge Navigator Video
You have to remember that the graphical Web version of the Internet that we have today did not exist when this video was produced – it came six years later. This vision of how the summary of human knowledge could be digitally available and easily transferable between geographies at the click of a button was a sci-fi pipe dream at that moment. As was the finger-driven multi-touch interface which is just now, 20 years later, really becoming a reality (iPhone). Same with easy point-to-point video conferencing (iChat / Skype). While today we still don’t have digital computer assistants we can talk to like in this video, we’ve got nearly everything else
Apple iPhone 4S Siri demo
