Apple Predicted Siri AI in 1987

Apple's Knowledge Navigator was a touchscreen tablet with an agentic AI, decades before Siri. It kicked off a debate over the relationship between humans & machines that's still going, nearly 40 years later. Like & subscribe! Sources: John Sculley, Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, (1987) Don Norman, "How Might People Interact with Agents", CACM, (1994) Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital (1995) Jaron Lanier, "Agents of Alienation" — ACM interactions, July 1995 Shneiderman & Maes, "Direct Manipulation vs. Interface Agents" — ACM interactions, Nov/Dec 1997 Alan Kay, "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages" (1972) Hugh Dubberly, The Making of Knowledge Navigator (2007) As always, I've aimed for accuracy – if anything was incorrect, or you have a personal story you'd like to add, or even just want to say you liked it, please drop a comment! Special thanks to Internet Archive. Additional music by Epidemic Sound. Subscribe!