A dream terminal that Apple was supposed to put out during the 20th century "Knowledge Navigator"

Although it is the best Apple on Mac OS X and iPod, John Scully, the second generation CEO in the long ago in 1987, aims to develop it by the 21st century "Knowledge Navigator"We announced the concept machine. The size is about as large as the notebook, it opens and uses it like a book, it has a touch panel and voice operation, it can be seen that already something like a web camera is also conceived and equipped. When considering the era of the era of the time it is tremendously advanced silomono, this.

So, the concept movie of what kind of usage was actually assumed is uploaded to Google Video. Playback is from the following.
Apple Computer Knowledge Navigator - Google Video


The original movie file can be downloaded from the following.

ACM CHI 1992 Issue 79 - Knowledge Navigator

There is also an article that points out that this concept is actually not dead at all and still continues to be inherited to Apple's product group.

Evolution theory to knowledge navigator

From this era when we celebrated the 21st century, it may be unlikely that surprising surprises will definitely be seen from the video clip. Some of the technology drawn there has already been realized but still it is an era when even the Internet is not popular at that time, much more notebook type portable computers are the 1991 PowerBook Because we had to wait until the announcement, "Foresight of the foresight" that foreseeed today's network society is unique to Apple that aims at technological innovation. For example, the speech synthesis and speech recognition technology of the electronic secretary "agent" appearing in the video is "Text-to-Speech" "Speech Recognition", the schedule management assisted by the agent and net search (fuzzy information retrieval) is "iCal "And" Sherlock "today. I finally realized the exchange of conversation with the other party through the telephone line at the release of "iChat AV". Especially, Apple's built-in microphone built-in video camera "iSight" etc. is a built-in camera of Knowledge Navigator even though it is mounted type.

Idea is also important, but you can easily understand that it is Apple 's strength to bring it to a level that actually takes shape and reach the hands of ordinary users ... ....