Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987)

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Cites frik · 2016-10 · on “The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized”

Interesting historic piece. the TV movie is called Hyperland (1990): [LINK] Similar videos with good visions can be found from AT&T (the big old one), Microsoft and Apple - all from ca 1990. Apple Knowledge Navigator TV advertisement (1987): [this video] AT&T 1993 "You will" TV advertisement: [LINK] , [LINK] "Information at your Fingertips" Microsoft presentation at COMDEX 1995: [LINK] "Microsoft Network" (MSN 1.0) TV advertisement (1995): [LINK]

Cites itisit · 2020-12 · on “The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)”

And Starfire was an updated take on Apple's Knowledge Navigator (1987): [this video] All of these visions feel like they stem from TMoAD. Does anyone make inspirational concept films for industry/academia/etc like these anymore?

Cites happybuy · 2023-03 · on “Introducing LLaMA Voice Chat”

The conversation back and forth with a bit of AI whimsy reminds me a lot of Apple's Knowledge Navigator video: [this video] Siri could've been this but overtime it has become more and more neutered to the point that it feels like talking to a drunken command line interface.

Cites esafak · 2023-11 · on “Attenuating Innovation (AI)”

He wasn't, but he didn't show Jobs' humility. Jobs could have given the same answer; he was no less visionary than Gates. This interview was from 2007. Apple started work on tablets (the Newton) in 1987, when they ran ads like this: [this video]

Cites 3lit3krew · 2024-06 · on “What do we want computers to do?”

Didn't anybody ever watch Apple's Knowledge Navigator movie? Well now we're basically here. It's neat but the issue we have now is AI literally recommends killing yourself and making pizza with glue. [this video]

Cites freediver · 2024-10 · on “ChatGPT Search”

Been thinking about this a lot [1]. Will this fundamentally change how people find and access information? How do you create an experience so compelling that it replaces the current paradigm? The future promised in Star Trek and even Apple's Knowledge Navigator [2] from 1987 still feels distant. In those visions, users simply asked questions and received reliable answers - nobody had to fact-check the answers ever. Combining two broken systems - compromised search engines and unreliable LLMs - seems unlikely to yield that vision. Legacy, ad-based search, has devolved into a wasteland of misaligned incentives, conflict of interest and prolifirated the web full of content farms optimized for a

Cites CaptainFever · 2025-01 · on “Operator research preview”

I would really love for Apple Knowledge Navigator to be real: [this video] and I'm surprised that people don't bring this visualisation up more often.

Cites haglin · 2025-04 · on “MinC Is Not Cygwin”

Yeah, Windows 2000 was probably the best operating system Microsoft ever produced. It had no crashes, a snappy/intuitive/sleek user interface, and DirectX support for games. I am currently running Mac OS X because I never liked Windows XP/Vista/10/11. In hindsight, the progress Microsoft made in the ten years between Windows 3.0 (1990) and Windows 2000 seems incredible. They transitioned from a 16-bit shell running on top of DOS to a fully-fledged operating system with a hardware abstraction layer, preemptive multitasking, permissions, a registry, proper device drivers etc. Twenty-five years later, there has been basically no progress. At a minimum, I would have expected something like the K