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Retro Glimpse of the future


cmgoodin

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I was looking around the You Tube and found one of my favorite old programs.

Connections with James Burke.  In the below linked episode he outlines a personal assistant on his MAC laptop while in India and it bears an uncanny resemblance to Siri or Google Plus.   This show was produced in 1997 almost a decade before the iPhone was announced.  So let's hope Apple didn't notice this video when they were filing patent applications for Siri.

 

The pertinent part starts about 2 minutes in.   And if you haven't seen the rest of the series it is a fascinating look at the various connections between historical events and scientific discovery.  It had 3 series all of them amazing.

 

----Courtney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91XWKv5UuCM&feature=player_detailpage&list=PLN4k4qrIgJwQx0qC8iU2gsAfB0dsyEhpe

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