Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987)

Maybe have a look at this video from 1987. After sidelining Steve, John Sculley came up with the term PDA and intended to evolve that vision as the mission of Apple, beginning with the breakthrough Apple Newton that ran on DEC's revolutionary StrongARM chip (that was based on ARM's IP that Apple co-developed). ▶ this video (I cannot find any of the old ATG videos featuring Agent Pierre online which was the same concept only shorter, less boring and funny.) PS: One of the first things Steve did upon returning to Apple after a decade was to reciprocate by KILLLING OFF Sculley's baby (Apple Newton). As far as its replacement (iPad) that reportedly was developed (but not released) before iPhone, it really has always been a dumpster fire software wise (but the same can't really be said of the iPhone variant, which was brilliant for a phone form factor, at least for a while there), not because Apple didn't have capability to do a tablet right, but because of Apple's INTERNAL POLITICS (like link]) FWIW, I sense now that Apple is finally about to unify macOS and i{Pad}OS for its upcoming generation of devices and shift to multi-modal UX, getting us back to Sculley's original PDA vision.

Interesting historic piece. the TV movie is called Hyperland (1990): link Similar videos with good visions can be found from AT&T (the big old one), Microsoft and Apple - all from ca 1990. Apple Knowledge Navigator TV advertisement (1987): ▶ this video AT&T 1993 "You will" TV advertisement: link , link "Information at your Fingertips" Microsoft presentation at COMDEX 1995: link "Microsoft Network" (MSN 1.0) TV advertisement (1995): link

I don't know much about Zapier but IFTTT seems to me to be more like the infra-structure for software agents. IFTTT you are still creating recipes. I would like to say that Agent 2.0 would look like the Knowledge Navigator of the Apple videos (▶ this video). Many moons ago, I remember seeing this video in a graduate computer science course on CHI and freaking out. Now the question is what does Agent 1.0 look like?

These are always fun to watch. Here's one of Apple's versions if you're curious: ▶ this video Microsoft still maintains its "home of the future". I think they update it every 3-5 years or so. Here's a newer one I found on youtube: link It's pretty funny to see how the set, from what I can tell, is basically identical. And here's another Microsoft video about the "future of productivity" made back in 2011: link