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"Retire? Yeah, I want to die with my head in the typewriter. That's my idea of retirement."
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How many times have you been to a conference and heard "I'm sorry, I only made 250 copies of this paper - some of you are going to have to share."
At a conference in the novel, one of the speakers finds an online document. He distributes it to the others live.
I'm constantly being promised that I will be able to walk up to a kiosk and hold out my device, and good stuff will be automagically beamed into it. This is a good early description of the electronic alternative to "Xerox the material, and give a copy to everyone." Comment/Join this discussion ( 3 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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