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"But the problem with reincarnation is that it's hard to imagine what the storage medium for past lives would be. Not to mention the input-output device. I hesitate to rule it out completely, but I'd need pretty definite proof."
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Bear is reusing (and renaming) this idea from one of his earlier works; see the entry for e-sheet from his 2003 novel Darwin's Children.
Fans of Neal Stephenson's 1995 novel The Diamond Age may also remember the mediatron, which is the same basic idea.
If you're looking for a real-life version of this kind of display, prototypes abound. For example, see this Touch EPD Touch Screen EPaper Display . Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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