HEY Siri, we saw you coming. In our 17 March 1990 issue, we wrote about a computer system that could recognise continuous speech and may, we predicted, “form the basis of a personal computer controlled by voice”.
At the time, this intriguing new technology had already piqued the interest of Apple, which we then described as “famous for its MacIntosh range of personal computers controlled with a ‘mouse’ which moves a pointer around the screen to select various icons”. The company had spent several months collaborating with a research team at the University of Edinburgh, UK, to create a new…
