In 1987 Apple was a huge force in the personal computer industry. First of all the industry was ALIVE. Thriving. Evolving. Competing. Apple still had loads of money from the success of the Apple II, the Mac was creating the DTP sector, the now 30-year old desktop paradigm was relatively new and there was no real competition to Mac OS in terms of graphical user interface prowess. This was the time before TalOS/Taligent, before Copland. Before stagnation. This was the time when Apple had the means and the will to do more than sugarcoating existing solid technologies and going after easy money. The Knowledge Navigator was a mock video of Apple’s vision of 2010 personal computers. Some of the ideas found their way in Apple’s ill-fated Newton Personal Digital Assistant — still by far the most impressive PDA ever. Some were realised in the form of the World Wide Web.
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