By Harry McCracken | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 7:48 am
In 1994, newspaper giant Knight-Ridder envisioned a tablet which looks very much like the ones that are finally being built. Too bad there was no way to get anywhere near it with mid-1990s technology…
[…] Want That 1994 Tablet (and My Hoverboard) By swildstrom Over at Technologizer, Harry McCracken has unearthed a wonderful 1994 video by something called the Knight-Ridder […]
January 20th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Ten years earlier, Knight-Ridder had a graphics-oriented, interactive online newspaper and web service called Viewtron. They pulled the plug on it because they didn’t see any real market for an online newspaper.