1989 General Magic Saw the Future of Smartphones: Motorola Envoy’s Smart Desktop

And General Magic not only invented and dropped the future once, they did it twice with Portico/MyTalk. Voice recognition and intelligent response back in 1997. It was gone a few years later.

Worth watching is the documentary on General Magic:

https://youtu.be/uTdyb-RWNKo

What's new is old again ...