Looking Back
30, 20, and 10 Years Ago in OPN
Prophecies of handheld digital assistants in 1988; Scottish optoelectronics in 1998; and a look at the history of lighting in 2008.
1988 Introduced in 1996, Nokia’s 9000 Communicator offered messaging, email, calendar, address book, text-based web browsing, and could also be used as a mobile phone. [Wikimedia Commons]
“[At] a symposium on future development and applications of optoelectronics held in Killarney, Ireland … Hans Danielmeyer, vice president of Siemens AG, predicted that the year 2000 will bring real-time data compression for video pictures of 30 fps, … optical read/write discs storing 100 Gbits of information … [and] real-time speech recognition used with a pocket telephone connected to instant world services for shopping, banking, and message handling.”
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