They invented it when? When interactive technologies were first conceived

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