An Apple vision piece from 1987. Check out the iPad type device with multitouch!
Fast forward 23 years to 2010 and they’ve recently bought Siri - a company that offers a very smart virtual personal assistant experience not unlike the one shown in that video. It’s 2010 and we’re one step closer to HAL (or Holly).
Siri say:
“Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) represent the next generation interaction paradigm for the Internet. In today’s paradigm, we follow links on search results. With a VPA, we interact by having a conversation. We tell the assistant what we want to do, and it applies multiple services and information sources to help accomplish our task. Like a real assistant, a VPA is personal; it uses information about an individual’s preferences and interaction history to help solve specific tasks, and it gets better with experience.”
