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		joezydeco on July 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Predictions of the Future From the 1960s Well, you can go back farther to Alan Kay's Dynabook (1968) to predict the iPhone. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook) Even Jobs has wanted to make a Dynabook from the early days (http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Pirate_Flag.txt). There was also the crew from UIUC that won Apple's "Design the Computer of the Year 2000" back in 1987. Their design? A tablet.

Florin_Andrei on July 21, 2011 [–]

> the crew from UIUC that won Apple's "Design the Computer of the Year 2000" back in 1987. Their design? A tablet.

Star Trek TNG also featured imagined tablets, and they started out roughly around the same time. The design just makes sense, it's natural.

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