American computer pioneer Alan Kay’s concept, the Dynabook, was published in 1972. How come Steve Jobs and Apple iPad get the credit for ...

Answer (1 of 4): The Dynabook idea happened in 1968. But the simple part of the idea — a personal computer on the back of a flat screen display with a stylus and touch sensitivity — is hard to consider a real invention given: * Flat-screen displays. I saw the first University of Illinois one i...

[KoshianX]

アラン・ケイが iPad を「私が考えていたものの数千倍の容量を持っていますが、その概念は数千倍貧弱です」とコメントしてるのが Quora にあったとは。Dynabook はまだまだ遠いな。Surface のほうが近いかねえ

[yhara]

“So: don’t confuse the Dynabook idea with the physical resemblance to the iPad.”