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In article <4020@ece-csc.UUCP> jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall) writes:
>In article <1630@husc6.harvard.edu> maymudes@husc4.UUCP (David M. Maymudes) writes:
>>
>>Perhaps Apple will tackle the problem head on, and just release a Mac IV.
>
>Maybe they'll emulate DEC and release the "Macintosh 2000."

Don't laugh just yet.  Have you seen Apple's "Project 2000" video, in 
which they "display" the Knowledge Navigator?  This is the computer of the
future you may have seen photographs of.  It's the size of a notebook, and
folds up just like one, but opens to reveal a flat display, speaker, 
microphone, and video pickup.  No keyboard.  The user interface consists of
a window on the screen containing an animated picture of a guy in a bow
tie (I'd hire a cartoon character wearing a three-piece suit to inhabit
my computer, personally).  He talks to you.  You talk to him.  He understands
you and follows your directions.  

The video pickup is also designed to work as part of a picturephone.  If
someone calls you, a window opens on the desktop containing their picture,
and they get a window with your picture.

In the video tape, Apple used slick special effects to simulate their ideas
of the computer of the future.  But I'd be surprised if they weren't
working towards many of these concepts today, in preparation for the future.
I don't know how much of this is feasible, but at least we know a portable
Apple isn't too far away!  Foldable, notebook sized, maybe not.

I'll see you here on comp.sys.mac after the Super Bowl of the year 2000,
and we can talk about the $7,500,000,000 10-second commercial Apple had 
during the game for their new product.


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