Newspaper thinktank predicted the iPad in 1994

Are you people serious? None of this is new even in 1994. Apple didn’t invent the tablet or even these guys didn’t come up with the idea of a digital newspaper. All these are just technology ideas. There are millions of technology concepts that people have thought of. The technology just hasn’t caught up. Think about all those Si-if movies and books, concepts cars, concept energy ideas. .
Apple or any other company will never create a product that hasn't been thought of or even tried by someone before. Every major company has stolen ideas; they just had the resources to make it happen

Well guys, the real, and much more imagined and closer version was created by Micael okuda for Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was called thE P.A.D.D. ( Personal Access Display Device ). It was used universally and wirelessly aboard the starships for data retrieval and to communicate to the shipboard systems for any purpose needed, including video tranmissions. It was a further imagining of the video pad in the 2001:ASO. And he used a MAAC computer for all the computer generated effects for all the displays, both on the ship terminals and the PADD devices.

Wow! THIS is the guy who coined the term "mediamorphsis," the word everyone can't stop using??

yes, it's a nice mockup but other than the budget to do it, a wireless tablet "portal" to the world always seemed like an obvious concept ... that was Sculley's big idea - the navigator something ... and in most scifi show charaters used one in the 1970's but especially ST: NG ... that was pre this video, right? A tablet is essentially a "super" clipboard ... just like back in the 1940's they predict homes would have home computers where a housewife could access receipes in the kitchen ... of course, it was literally science fiction then to show a terminal-monitor on the counter (wired and anchored - more like a terminal but close enough). And until the ipad, everyone thought a tablet was a good idea but a typical WIN PC was slow, weighed 3 pounds so everyone thought the tradeoff was way down the line ... plus the WIn side figured it had to have a stylus and couldn't get a software keyboard working and when 99% buys into the fact that is MS can't do it, it must not be possible ... :-) Thankfully we have a company that has Apple that blithly ignores what "can't" be done. You don't have to go back far to look over the list of dozens of "experts" who thought no one would buy an ipad - let along the hundreds who thought NOT one had previously bought a touchscreen phone, why would they want Apple's?

I have to admit I felt very "time-travely" watching this video on my iPad 2...

The future is now! :-)

Newspapers were killed by labor costs like everything else. Collecting news is labor-intensive; digesting, writing, and editing is very time-consuming work for skilled and experienced people.

What I see as proving this is the horribly shoddy reporting and editing that goes on. The New York Times publishing fiction or retreads from Jayson Blair? That's not bias alone - it's bias hobbled by lack of resources to do a time-consuming job right.

OK I'm right wing but my dad published newspapers and he described a vastly labor-intensive industry into the 1960's. Even serious truth seekers need a lot of time (hence wages) to do a thorough reporting job. Who has that time?

Whoever is in charge of the iPad apps at various newspaper companies needs to watch this. So far, the only one that seems to have it right is USA Today.

Everyone else is trying to reinvent the newspaper. Just make the electronic version work and feel like a regular newspaper, and enhance it a little.

Turns out they were right, as tablets were around at the turn of the century.

They just didn't have an Apple logo.

Why is no one mentioning Star Trek's PADDs? Is it so outlandish to think that we as a species create the things we see? My guess is that tablet devices have been in people's conciousness for a long time, espescially anyone that grew up watching Kirk read reports on the devices. We've been trying to recreate that for a long time, see: the Newton, the Palm Tungsten (and various other iterations), and smartphones in general.

the effects in this video are at least on par with the MS courier propaganda.