Forty years ago, Apple imagined the Knowledge Navigator, a foldable device with screens, a camera, and an AI assistant. It was never built, but its vision of the future proved remarkably prescient.
In this video, we celebrate the donation of a rare replica of the Knowledge Navigator to the Computer History Museum by Italian collector and Fondazione 101 founder Damiano Airoldi. Years in the making, this gift preserves an important chapter in the history of computing: a future imagined long before it became possible.
As Apple enters the foldable era with its newly announced iPhone Duo, the Knowledge Navigator serves as a reminder that some of the company’s boldest ideas began as pure imagination.
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