Less a butler; more a secretary. A butler is used to organize things. A secretary organizes ideas. I'm not sure if this intrigues me or frightens me. But it's definitely the future.
If you thought the "cloud" was accessing too much personal data....
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Less a butler; more a secretary. A butler is used to organize things. A secretary organizes ideas. I'm not sure if this intrigues me or frightens me. But it's definitely the future.
If you thought the "cloud" was accessing too much personal data....
This makes me wonder if Apple is presently making another concept video of future computing. If so, I'd love to see it!
notice how big and ugly this thing was? If they had shown an iPad in this video everybody would have laughed and said that something like this is just ridiculously unrealistic..
i think its amazing that in a video from 1987 they show a situation in the year 2010 (you can see the year 2010 in the second graph of brazil and the guy says 'the past twenty years'") and 23(!!) years later exactly in the year 2010 they release a product which actually is just like this?!
They obviously had the vision of the iPad a veeeery long time ago..and more stunningly they already seemed to have a concept of how it would work in terms of interface etc.
thats why 20 years from now there's either gonna be no
at all, or there's gonna be everything
i think its amazing that in a video from 1987 they show a situation in the year 2010 (you can see the year 2010 in the second graph of brazil and the guy says 'the past twenty years'") and 23(!!) years later exactly in the year 2010 they release a product which actually is just like this?!
They obviously had the vision of the iPad a veeeery long time ago..and more stunningly they already seemed to have a concept of how it would work in terms of interface etc.
thats why 20 years from now there's either gonna be no
at all, or there's gonna be everything
video was posted 10 months ago and given at Semantic Tech:
http://www.semtech2009.com/ (Site not avail)
So last year, before the app came out.
arn
the ipad will have multitasking this fall when it gets iphone os 4.1
things like v-twin, hypercard, etown and hot sauce which came out of apple's R&D department in the late 80's and 90's were primitive when compared to the science fiction of the time, but were actual working products. there is a big difference between a science fiction author dreaming up a concept and a corporation or science team putting together a projection of their own technology.
for what it's worth vannevar bush's memex machine predates necromancer by 40 years.
Deforestation of the amazon rainforest! - how ludicrous is it that in 1987! Apple knew and was conscious of this and chose to promote it
Yet, still crap all has happened. I know it's a tragically unpopular idea but I still think Steve Jobs should purchase a few hundred million acres of the stuff. I know damn well I would if I was a billionaire.
Yet, still crap all has happened. I know it's a tragically unpopular idea but I still think Steve Jobs should purchase a few hundred million acres of the stuff. I know damn well I would if I was a billionaire.
The article says that the concept video shows the use of multi-touch which is very interesting considering its age, but I couldn't see it. Did I miss it?
Hm, could this complicate some of the current patent kerfuffles going on between Apple and HTC, etc?
Bruce Tognazinni & Starfire
Bruce Tognazzini (aka Tog) was at Apple from 1978-1992 and then at Sun from 1992 to 1993. While at Sun he was associated with a future concept project called Starfire that produced a video. That video is now available on YouTube.
Hmmm... First the iPhone, now the iPad. I REALLY want one of the desk displays.
Did someone say that Apple was working on a very large screen display?
(Notice the sandwich and the screen interaction around 4:46.)
Bruce Tognazzini (aka Tog) was at Apple from 1978-1992 and then at Sun from 1992 to 1993. While at Sun he was associated with a future concept project called Starfire that produced a video. That video is now available on YouTube.
Hmmm... First the iPhone, now the iPad. I REALLY want one of the desk displays.
Did someone say that Apple was working on a very large screen display? (Notice the sandwich and the screen interaction around 4:46.)
Valid point, but what about when you're not at home on your computer. Maybe you have a laptop, or an iPad with 3G, or even an iPhone, but like Grubber said, I think it'd be faster to ask Siri some questions that switch from app to app to app trying to piece things together a day of events like a matinee movie, a wine festival and dinner.
They don't have to beat anyone, they don't even have to be the first they just have to have the best implementation and hardware to go with it. Then create a niche where they make top ROI I see no need to care if its in every person's home.
more POLITICAL crap in this video
is it just me, or has anybody notice that they were pushing the bull crap called GLOBAL WARMING in this video?
i can't freaking believe it! global warming back then too?
just for that, i'm going to kill a tree today.
is it just me, or has anybody notice that they were pushing the bull crap called GLOBAL WARMING in this video?
i can't freaking believe it! global warming back then too?
just for that, i'm going to kill a tree today.
Bruce Tognazzini (aka Tog) was at Apple from 1978-1992 and then at Sun from 1992 to 1993. While at Sun he was associated with a future concept project called Starfire that produced a video. That video is now available on YouTube.
Hmmm... First the iPhone, now the iPad. I REALLY want one of the desk displays.
(Notice the sandwich and the screen interaction around 4:46.)
Cool video too, but concept videos like these don't hold as much weight as demo videos like:
Engelbart
These guys are actually doing the amazing things way back in 1968, 20 years before the 1987 video. "b-b-b-but I thought Apple invented the mouse?" Apple hasn't invented much, they are just good at bringing things to market in a better way.