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Personal Devices · Recorded milestone

Touchscreen tablet

Recorded year2002

A light slate you control with your fingers, used for reading, video, games and calls by children and grandparents alike.

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Built on

TouchscreenRecorded · 1965enables
Personal computerRecorded · 1975enables
Pressure-sensitive pen tabletRecorded · 1988enables
SmartphoneRecorded · 1994enables

Led to

Foldable phoneRecorded · 2018enables
AI digital textbooksRecorded · 2025enables
AI screening for learning differencesForecast · ~2029enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.