The prescient Apple video from 1987
Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 07:07AM It's poor quality image, but this old clip from Apple is 30 years old:
Today's Siri and Alexa make the nerdy looking "Knowledge Navigator" strangely prophetic.
1987 I was using an Apple IIc that took 5 1/4 floppy disks, owned no portable phone at all, used a 300 baud dial up modem to get me into a bulletin board, and watched over-the-air-broadcast television. Oh, and read paper books and magazines and letters. So things have changed.
Hard to image just how much more they will change over the next 30 years. If you want a glimpse, I highly recommend Kevin Kelly's book The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future. I like his optimism.
(Oh, note how long and slow-paced the video is - our attention spans have shrunk as well!)
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