The Original Kindle — From 1968!

This is captioned Alan Kay’s Dynabook mockup, first shown in 1968 over at Tablet PC Technology: The Next Generation.


Source: Wikimedia Commons

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

— Alan Kay

Not much new under the sun, eh?

Additional:

Wikipedpia: Dynabook entry
Wikipedpia: Alan Kay entry
Remembering the Dynabook

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2 Responses to The Original Kindle — From 1968!

  1. Twitted by dnm54 says:
    December 2, 2009 at 4:29 pm

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  2. John Maxwell says:
    December 3, 2009 at 2:23 am

    Kay’s Dynabook was — even in its mid-1970s prototypes — already vastly more capable than the Kindle. See http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-26-kay.pdf

    Kay’s Dynabook wasn’t an e-reader; it was an e-writer.

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