@stroughtonsmith 🧵Knowledge Navigator Persona
A VisionOS AI persona in a frame on a wall (or on your desk). In real life, not just in VisionOS!
KN listens and watches you, responds verbally, or directs its response to one of your screens, but lives in the frame.
Knowledge Navigator, but centered on a Google Beam quality persona. 🤖
This was my guess — and wish — for what Jony and Sam might try doing together.🙂
@harrymccracken You know, like this that lives in a frame on your desk — or wall — but with a Google Beam quality persona:
On the 21st-century personal computer:
> I developed a term, #KnowledgeNavigator, to describe it. While today’s computers take users to the doorsteps of #libraries and institutions, the Knowledge Navigator will drive us through them. […] It will make incredible quantities of information understandable - and personalized.
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@strathearnrose @jimalkhalili
That reminded me of #VannevarBush and the (Apple IIRC) #KnowledgeNavigator film.
In brief for bystanders where a Bright can go a Tween can follow, making trails through knowledge, data, information, and analysis, and maintaining them is a service to the world.
@NanoRaptor Woah, love the #KnowledgeNavigator mousepad! /cc @splorp
Google has announced a foldable phone:
https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/google-pixel-fold
Combined with the rise of LLM chat applications, this could make the Apple Knowledge Navigator close to reality!
@kurtsh
I am still curious if #microsoft 's #copliot will be closer to the vision of #Apple 's #KnowledgeNavigator or to #Clippy
This doesn't _technically_ qualify for #MARCHintosh, but it's pretty damn adjacent:
Emily wanted to bring a pair of boots to @LabB's #repaircafe and I had never gone, so looked at my "needs repair" shelf and — not seeing anything I wanted to work on — decided to grab my #Apple #eMate300. I had boxed it away years ago to await a preemptive hinge repair. Fortunately, my #KnowledgeNavigator storage bin was easily accessible, so I grabbed the eMate and tools for disassembly.
Holy 💩!!! This MS Copilot 365 (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-your-copilot-for-work/) looks just a few months/year of UX work away from Apple's vision of the Knowledge Navigator (https://youtu.be/9bjve67p33E) from 1987!
#retrofuturism #livinginthefuture #apple #knowledgenavigator #copilot365
