Steve Jobs - NeXT Interpersonal Computing - Demo (1990)

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   so that they could share it with some of their friends that I haven't had a chance to meet yet.

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   And what we're going to do today is run through a pretty simple demo of what we call interpersonal computing.

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   Interpersonal computing is the desire to improve group productivity and collaboration,

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   which we think is going to be one of the key uses of sophisticated desktop computers in the early 90s,

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   versus just personal computing, which was improving individual productivity.

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   So as we move to interpersonal computing, the way we communicate is what's going to be important here.

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   And we want to communicate not with just words, but with words and any text, pictures, sounds.

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   And I'm going to take you through how a Next Computer enables you to do this in a revolutionary new way.

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   And I'm going to use our mail system as the spine of the demo to show you some pretty neat features.

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    So let's start.

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    First of all, a Next Computer is a multitasking computer,

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    which means I can be navigating around through my files

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    and at the same time instantly check my mail

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    and have all these programs running at once as we'll see.

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    And rather than quit a program, I can hide it.

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    In this case, hiding the workspace behind the logo here

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    or hiding my mail behind its icon over here

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    which is the little letter with the postage stamp on it.

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    So let me go ahead and hide the workspace and get out the mail.

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    And I can look at my mail system literally hundreds of times a day

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    because in a half a second, I'm reading my mail.

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    So let's take a look at this first mail message.

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    Here's all of the mail messages I've gotten,

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    and I can look at a list of them.

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    I have 12 of them here.

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    And the one that's highlighted shows its contents down below.

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    Here's a picture of the person, in this case Rich Page,

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    who sent the mail message,

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    the date and the time that it was sent,

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    and some other buttons over here

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    that let me do some pretty neat things,

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    which we'll go into in just a sec.

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    Now, this message sent by Rich shows me the layout

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    or a picture, I guess a diagram of our new SCSI connector.

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    And I can smoothly scroll through it.

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    And notice that in our mail system, we can put postscript of any font, any size.

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    We can put any color diagrams in created by postscript drawing programs

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    or other types of drawing programs.

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    And we just send it.

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    Let's take a look at the next one.

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    Bob Longo has sent us a mail message about a new office space

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    that he wants to lease.

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    It's only 20 minutes from the airport, he says.

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    And what he did was scanned in a picture of it

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    with a color scanner,

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    dropped it right in the mail message,

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    and sent it.

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    This is probably going to really increase his chances

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    for getting the funds approved

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    for him to rent the space.

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    Now, if I want to send this mail message

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    to some of my colleagues,

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    I can simply go up here to send

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    and push the button.

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    Up pops a send window,

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    and I can push forward,

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    in which case the contents of Bob's message

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    will be stuck in this window for forwarding.

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    There we go.

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    there's the picture right there.

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    And, of course, I could modify it if I wanted to,

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    or I could add some things.

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    Let's say where it says Policy Team here,

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    I'm going to put in a voicemail message,

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    and I'll just push Lip Service right here,

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    which brings up our Lip Service function.

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    And I push Record, and I say,

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    hey, check this out and get back to me.

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    Thanks.

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    And I'll then insert it,

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    and here are the lips right here.

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    I can put them pretty much wherever I want to.

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    And the recipient will just simply click on this

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    and play it.

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    Hey, check this out and get back to me.

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    Thanks.

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    And I can look up people's addresses

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    simply by pushing the address panel.

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    We're not connected to the network here,

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    but as you see, you can look up groups of people

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    and just click on here.

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    Look up the personnel department, maybe Max Henry.

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    And just deliver it by pushing this button right here.

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    So as you see, it's extremely easy

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    for even executives to use this thing.

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    Okay, we'll get rid of this window.

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    Go back over here.

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    Here's a message from Theo Egbrenz.

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    He's our president of NextEurope,

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    and he's going to hire a bunch of people,

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    and he's sending out this welcome message to all his new team members.

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    So, of course, he has some that speak English as their primary language.

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    Congratulations on joining the best computer company in the world.

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    We have ambitious plans for NextEurope,

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    and I look forward to working together with you to make them a reality.

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    You can see that the CD sound that's built into every computer and of course the microphone really is nice.

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    Now, Tao's going to hire some people with French as their primary language, so we have a version in French.

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    And German?

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    you get the idea.

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     So here Theo is sending a message to each of his new employees

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     and communicating with them in their native tongue.

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     Now, this is another thing.

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     we can do with the system quite easily we've seen how we can put text in any

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     size or style or font

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     we can put in illustrations we can put in photographs we can even put in cd

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     quality sound

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     now i want to send a spreadsheet to my colleagues let's say or in this case

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     sandy cold wanted to send one to me

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     and rather than having to look through a three hundred page manual to figure out

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     how to do this

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     sandy just had to drag the document icon of this lotus spreadsheet right into the

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     mail window and it's stuck and then she just wrote the text and push deliver and you can

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     put as many attachments like this as you want any file any document in your mail message

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     as well as any number of lips for voice annotations and send it the recipient simply double clicks

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     on the icon which launches in this case lotus improv over here up pops what sandy wanted

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     to send me.

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     This happens to be the new Lotus spreadsheet and this is a spreadsheet that has to do with

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     looking at expenses.

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     Here are some costs for programmers, consultants and student aides in various departments in

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     a campus, the humanities, science and engineering in the medical school.