[4eyes] Retro-picture: smartphone as envisioned by Xerox PARC 20 years ago

[Saiph Savage]

ups I think the image didn't send well:
here's the link:
http://img.etnews.com/photonews//0911/091115045509_350808717_b.jpg
cheers

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Saiph Savage <saiphcita at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Folks,
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> I was digging through an old paper about an auto-blogging system from 1994
> (Mik Lamming’s “Pepys” system) and ran across this picture you might find
> amusing: it’s the Xerox ParcTab, which was Xerox’s 1990’s vision of what a
> smartphone (“handheld computing device”) might look like.  It’s interesting
> how technologies and design aesthetics change the look of a basic concept as
> it evolves: the pen interface; the assumption that you’d fit it in your hand
> and keep it there for a while (the buttons); the line-oriented display;
> behind the scenes, the assumption that this is a terminal rather than
> something with a lot of standalone intelligence and storage….
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> Thought you’d enjoy it.
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> Cheers!
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> ~Saiph
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Norma Saiph Savage
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