Knight-Ridder Predicted Apple Tablet in 1994: Didn’t Build It ...

Courtesy Mashable!  Sat, 08/22/2009 - 19:07

tabletsHindsight is 20-20, they say.

Take, for instance, this promotional video from media company Knight-Ridder made in 1994, in which the Knight Ridder laboratory predicts newspapers being replaced by sleek black tablet devices that allow people to consume media on the go.

Did Knight Ridder foresee the Amazon Kindle and Kindle DX?

Or perhaps the inevitable tablet renaissance that will be sparked by Apple’s upcoming launch of a tablet device?

Mashable reader Christoph ...

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