(1984) Electronic Office, Episode 6: Easy to Use? has a nice demo from Bell Labs showing an interactive map, navigation, and restaurant search.
"There are many possibilities because you can imagine it being used, for example in a car, in connection with some kind of advanced mobile phone service in which you would actually call in from your car terminal and get directions, and you could even imagine that the computer was tracking the car in some way so it could tell you when to make your turns" - Michael Lesk
From the same programme, Peter Keen from the London Business School has this to say about expert systems:
"...Expert systems are really slightly dumb systems that exploit the speed and cheapness of computer chips...There are many expert systems in the literature which are nothing more than a series of fast if-then-else rules...you do that a couple of hundred thousand times it can look remarkably intelligent"
It's well worth watching this little clip. I wonder if what he says is still true?
"There are many possibilities because you can imagine it being used, for example in a car, in connection with some kind of advanced mobile phone service in which you would actually call in from your car terminal and get directions, and you could even imagine that the computer was tracking the car in some way so it could tell you when to make your turns" - Michael Lesk
https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....