Well, it didn't take me long to get up and search for those commercials online, where they now live. They're surprisingly similar to Douglas Adams's much more enjoyable Hyperland. In fact, I think Steven Levy was thinking about Hyperland when he described some aspects of Knowledge Navigator.
Sun Dec 03 2006 22:46:
I was reading a Steven Levy book (Insanely Great) about the development of the Macintosh, and after a while it went a little off the rails and started talking about things that were not t.d.o.t.M. But one of the things it mentioned was John Sculley's blue-sky idea of a notebook computer called the Knowledge Navigator, with software agents and voice recognition and basically everything you could want for the Navigation of Knowledge. Sculley even had a bunch of long-form commercials made for it.
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