January 31, 2012

How the Knowledge Navigator video came about

Great read about the making of the iconic vision video by AAPL.

"Sparked by the introduction of Siri, as well as products such as iPad and Skype, there have been many recent posts and articles tracing the technologies back to a 1987 Apple video called Knowledge Navigator. The video simulated an intelligent personal agent, video chat, linked databases and shared simulations, a digital network of university libraries, networked collaboration, and integrated multimedia and hypertext, in most case decades before they were commercially available. Having been involved in making Knowledge Navigator with some enormously talented Apple colleagues, I thought I would correct the record once and for all about what really happened."

(Bud Colligan a.k.a. @collbud ~ Dubberly Design Office)

Posted by PJB at January 31, 2012 10:29 AM | Classification: Classics - HCI