As you may be aware, Apple held it's big iPhone 5, er 4S, event in Cupertino today, and while the iCinco failed to make an appearance and the company's stock plunged 5 percent as a result, it was still a good day for the Apple faithful. Perhaps most exciting (depending on who you ask) is that Siri, the personal assistant app that uses natural language processing to answer questions, make recommendations, and eventually aims to replace your butler, will now be native on all iPhone 4Ses.
However, what's even more mind blowing is that Apple predicted this technology more than a quarter century ago. The following video has been making the rounds over the last 24 hours (and thanks to Sociable for first pointing it out), which you really have to see. Apple's "what if" exposition, which contains some late-'80s awesomeness, describes something called the "Knowledge Navigator" -- a suped-up, tuxedo-ed personal assistant that users manipulate by way of voice and touch. All this in 1987, only a year after Apple IIGS hit the market.
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