Apple Knowledge Navigator

We have been revisiting the Apple Knowledge Navigator video over the last year. Much of the video was inspired by the earlier work of Alan Kay. When it first appeared in 1987 the concepts of touch screens, video conferencing, avatars, presence, data visualization and natural language were a distant dream.

Twenty years on mainstream users are beginning to gain access to much of the functionality displayed within the Apple Knowledge Navigator video. It is good to see the Croquet Consortium, of which Alan is one of the six principal architects, coming of age. Interesting times indeed.

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