Knowledge Navigator Videos
by Apple Computer

Knowledge Navigator is a research project at Apple Computer (1987-1988?) that has produced not just the famous Knowledge Navigator concept video but also a set of almost unknown additional short vison clips.

The Knowledge Navigator (1987):

at Internet Archive

Concept by Hugh Dubberly and Doris Mitsch of Apple Creative Services, with input from Mike Liebhold of Apple’s Advanced Technologies Group and advice from Alan Kay

• wikipedia: Knowledge Navigator
• Using Deforestation of the Rain Forest as an Example, Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, 1995
• Jon Udell: Knowledge Navigator revisited, InfoWorld 2003
• Future Project: Project Composer Assistant (AI), Weinreich
• John Sculley presents Knowledge Navigator at TED2

All Videos of Apple’s Knowledge Navigator Research Project

• Knowledge Navigator (5' 45") best version on Internet Archive | better version on Dailymotion | poor quality on youtube
• The Moment of Discovery (5' 30") /via A Trove of Apple Promo Videos from the ’80s and ’90s
• Knowlege Navigator Implications (9' 46"), Apple 1988 – This one contains the following_
  • Knowledge Navigator Volcanoes (1') – also used in this Apple Promo
  • 
    Knowledge Navigator Part II Parckbench (1' 14")
  • Knowledge Navigator Turbine (50")
  • Knowledge Navigator Hypermedia (30")
  • Knowledge Navigator Chromosaurus (20")
    
    
• Apple Promo part 1 (14' 10") | part 2 (13' 10") | part 3 (8' 32")
  Note, part 2 contains Knowledge Navigator Implications from above. Part 3 contains another Knowledge Navigator short:

• Knowledge Navigator November 16, 2003 (~4')
  
  
• Gray Flannel Navigator, Apple 1988
  • alternative: part 1 – part 2 – part 3
    
    
• Future Shock, Apple 1988
  
  
• Healthcare and tele medicine, Apple 1988

Misc

• Connection 1997 (Apple 1987)
• Computer Connectivity – Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Apple 1989
• Apple at Work, Apple 2019

à propos

• Video Visions of the Future – A Critical Review, CHI 2004
• HCI Vision Videos
  
  
• Academic Computing in the Year 2000 was mentioned on the YouTube page of Knowlege Navigator Implications
  
  
• Apple User Group Connection – October 1989
• Apple Commercials compilation 1981-1989
  
  
• Tapestries: Knowledge Navigator
  
  
• Alan Kay Media Center

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