![]() Star Trek: The Next Generation featured extensive use of tablet computers. He and others urged the industry to research the Dynabook concept. In 1985, as the home-computer market significantly declined after several years of strong growth, Dan Bricklin said that a successful home computer needed to be the size of and as convenient to carry as a spiral notebook. Steve Jobs of Apple envisioned in a 1983 speech an "incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes". Adults could also use a Dynabook, but the target audience was children. In 1968, Alan Kay envisioned a KiddiComp while a PhD candidate he developed and described the concept as a Dynabook in his 1972 proposal: A personal computer for children of all ages, the paper outlines the requirements for a conceptual portable educational device that would offer functionality similar to that supplied via a laptop computer or (in some of its other incarnations) a tablet or slate computer with the exception of the requirement for any Dynabook device offering near eternal battery life. Clarke's NewsPad appearing in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the description of the Calculator Pad in the 1951 novel Foundation by Isaac Asimov, the Opton in the 1961 novel Return from the Stars, by Stanislaw Lem, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in Douglas Adams 1978 comedy of the same name, all helping to promote and disseminate the concept to a wider audience. Tablet computers appeared in a number of works of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century, with the depiction of Arthur C. In addition to many academic and research systems, there were several companies with commercial products in the 1980s: Pencept and Communications Intelligence Corporation were among the best known of a crowded field. The tablet computer and the associated special operating software is an example of pen computing technology, and the development of tablets has deep historical roots. The first publicly demonstrated system using a tablet and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard for working with a modern digital computer dates to 1956. The first patent for a system that recognized handwritten characters by analyzing the handwriting motion was granted in 1914. The history of tablet computers and the associated special operating software is an example of pen computing technology, and thus the development of tablets has deep historical roots.
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