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| Giant Flat Panel Display | ||
| Movie screen-sized flat panel display for live televised images. |
When a leading political figure wished to speak to the populace, he could go to a special television studio and have his likeness presented on enormous public displays.
 (Giant screen in H.G. Wells' Things to Come) |
| Technovelgy from The Shape of Things To Come,
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