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Apple's Future Computer: The Knowledge Navigator
Blake Patterson
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.
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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