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| A vision from 1987 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 23 2011, 07:21 AM (221 Views) | |
| George K | Dec 23 2011, 07:21 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WdS4TscWH8 This was Apple's vision of "the Knowledge Navigator" Note, the touch interface, speech recognition, the "agent's" access to data, conversational interaction, etc. Remember, this is before the Web, almost before the internet - in 1987. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| ivorythumper | Dec 23 2011, 07:29 AM Post #2 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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wow. |
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| VPG | Dec 23 2011, 07:33 AM Post #3 |
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Pisa-Carp
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I wonder if that was made before or after the environmentalists started Cooking the figures?
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I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK! "People say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look." Ronald Reagan, Inaugural, 1971 | |
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| George K | Dec 23 2011, 07:36 AM Post #4 |
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Isn't that Bill Nye in the picture? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 23 2011, 08:23 AM Post #5 |
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MAMIL
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'You have three messages' My God, I wish they'd got that bit right. |
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| George K | Dec 23 2011, 08:26 AM Post #6 |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 23 2011, 08:27 AM Post #7 |
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The most interesting tech-related question for me at the moment is how do we make e-mail useful again. |
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| Axtremus | Dec 23 2011, 08:31 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Siri sure had a long gestation period. |
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| George K | Dec 23 2011, 08:32 AM Post #9 |
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Let me Google that for you. HTH. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| ivorythumper | Dec 23 2011, 09:26 AM Post #10 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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When we were in London, my friend whose international company tracks and reports on tech trends told me that some major corporations are abandoning e-mail entirely, and that younger people often don't use it at all with IM's, Twitter and FB, and mused that e-mail may go the way of snail mail. |
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| Copper | Dec 23 2011, 09:42 AM Post #11 |
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Shortstop
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Yes, communication is getting faster and more personal. I can imagine a day when you will actually be able to talk in real time to people far away. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 23 2011, 09:46 AM Post #12 |
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Getting 150 IM's a day won't be an improvement. The problem for me isn't the method of delivery, but the mind-set that I'm actually interested in being cc'd with all this crap, or that by sending it to me they're actually achieving something (i.e. covering their asses). It seems to me that since e-mail, people are more reluctant to make their own decisions than they used to be, since it's so easy to ask someone else to make it for them. Pick. Up. The. F*cking. Phone. |
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| Mark | Dec 23 2011, 09:46 AM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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My kids hate email. It's days are definitely numbered. Is it Its or It's? I hate typing and grammar. Edited by Mark, Dec 23 2011, 09:51 AM.
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 23 2011, 09:48 AM Post #14 |
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The other problem with text is that it doesn't communicate anywhere nearly as effectively as speech, or personal contact. It so much easier to send, so that's what people do. |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 23 2011, 10:51 AM Post #15 |
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MAMIL
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Somewhat related: Volkwagen turns off company e-mails after work hours |
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