In 1994, Knight-Ridder’s Information Design Lab, a newspaper company, published this video which very accurately predicts today’s tablets.

  • Weigh under 2 pounds
  • Portable
  • Display is comparable to ink on paper
  • Blend text, images, video and audio
  • Part of our daily lives (yes) around the turn of the century (off by a decade)
  • “We may still use computers to create information, but we’ll use tablets to interact with information.”