Talk about being great at predicting new technologies and when they’ll arrive, a 1987 video has surfaced in which Apple predicted almost to the day when a voice assisted touchscreen device would arrive on the market.
After Apple’s iPhone 4S announcement yesterday which included their language-based voice assistant called Siri the old video predicts that in the future a voice-based personal assistant on a touchscreen computer would arrive.
In the video a professor asks his virtual assistant to find a research paper from five years ago at which point a paper from 2006 is shown. Not only is the paper shown, his devices current date readers September 16. That means Apple’s predication of a voice assisted device for customers was just a few weeks off schedule from their original September 16, 2011 expected date.
Trend forecasters eat your hearts out, it appears that Apple was extremely ahead of the game.
Too bad Apple couldn’t predict that many buyers expectations would be let down without the announcement of the iPhone 5.
What do you think about Apple’s prediction? Do you find it “mind-blowing” and “amazing” as many Twitter users have called it? I personally just find it to be a huge coincidence since Apple and other tech innovators makes thousands of similar predictions, some of which have to come true at some point.
