they invented it when? when interactive technologies were first conceived
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They invented it When?
Mike SharplesUniversity of Nottingham
Widescreen HD videophone1879
Voice controlled interactive TV1938
The Wonder Book of Tell Me Why, 1935 (p.20)
Handheld TV1948
Tele Tone TV208TR, 7inch TV
Adaptive automated tutoring system1956
Gordon Pask and Robin McKinnon-Wood, Self Adaptive Keyboard Instructor
Neural operated location-based multimedia guide1963
“Instinctively [Jed] switched over to his miniputer to review the situation.
It was a simple thing to do. Many of the parts of the miniputer were synthetic bio-chemical units, their “controls” built into Jed’s aural cavity; he “switched on” by simple neural impulse. At once the mighty resources of the machine, equal to the libraries of the world, billowed like a curtain on the fringes of his brain … Its “voice” came into his mind, filling it with relevant words, figures, and pictures.”
The Thing Under The Glacier,Brian Aldiss, 1963
Multimedia tablet computer1974
Alan Kay and Xerox PARC Research Centre, Dynabook concept
Worldwide web 1974
“Now the idea is this:To give you a screen in your home from which you can see into the world’s hypertext libraries.(The fact that the world doesn’t have any hypertext libraries – yet – is a minor point)To give you a screen system that will offer high-performance computer graphics and text services at a price anyone can afford. …To make you part of a new electronic literature and art, where you can get all your questions answered and nobody will put you down.”
Ted Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines, 1974