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Want more from your entejust say teach me more. into your xfinice remote to discover all sorts of tips and tricks in x1. can i find my wifi password? just ask. [ ding ] show me my wifi password. hey now! [ ding ] you can even troubleshoot, learn new voice commands and much more. clean my daughter's room. [ ding ] oh, it won't do that. welp, someone should. just say "teach me more" into your voice remote and see how you can have an even better x1 experience. simple. easy. awesome. in the early part of the '80s, the general image of the computer was always this giant

>> right. >> almost nobody would say we are going to take technology to this point. it's much more chaotic. things rise, ball, bubble and fall back. it is a confluence of developments that are all happening at the right time. >> small and portable are the watch words for the '90s for manufacturers showing their wares in chicago this week. sony has a new camcorder that fits into your hand and a combination tv/vcr that fits into your purse or briefcase. >> if you have one of these and one of these you are missing half the fun of owning a computer. this is a modem, with it you can turn your compu...

Machine with little things all over it. the mindset was the computer as the brain and it was a threatening concept. >> the 1980s is a period of time when the big impersonal giant machine that lives in a huge air-conditioned room someplace suddenly becomes something that sits on your desk. >> something is happening out there. something that's expanding your world. small computers are happening. >> as soon as we have intelligent machines creeping into our daily lives, into our factories, into our hospitals, into our businesses, then it's going to be a new world out there. >> computer stores have...

To build personal computers, companies like atari, commodore, apple, began to see them as a home market and it was starting to seep into the public consciousness. >> personal computers have become the business of at least 25 manufacturers with three companies, radio shack, apple and commodore, grabbing three-quarters of the market. >> this personal computer costs about $1400 and fits nicely on a desk corner. duplicating its performance just five years ago would have cost $75,000 and involved a unit the size of a large refrigerator. >> when the average american thought computer they thought ibm...

Computer should require no technical skill. he thought that it should be capable of generating artistic endeavors and not just number crunching business things. >> is there anything you would like to see it do? >> we would love to have it in a book right now about this size but that's technically impossible. >> steve's like i want to make a friendly computer. a computer that comes from a different kind of place. that owes its inspiration to people who are thoughtful and creative and human and humane. >> this is an experimental office system at the xerox research center in california. >> what f...