Netpliance i-Opener Press and Investor Promotional Video (2000)

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He was right that there would be a marketplace explosion of Internet connected devices -- but it came a decade later in handheld form, rather than as a stripped-down desktop PC on the kitchen counter.

There's also a video from 1983 in which Hewlett Packard predicted that after touch screens, voiced activated computers would be the next big thing. If only they had patented that, then HP would be getting royalty payments every time someone whips out their iPhone 4S and talks to Siri.