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"In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since."
- William Gibson
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| Big Screen Control | ||
| Display content from your personal device on a large shared screen. |
What if you have some visual material that you are using on your personal device, but would like to share it with others on a large screen? No problem for the joymaker.
| "Would you like to see the coconut on the Moon?"
"...we'll just show you." The boy scratched his head thoughtfully, then spoke to his junior joymaker. The view-walls cleared to show the lunar Farside... "This is just tape," the boy said. "No participation. Just look as long's you want to." |
| Technovelgy from The Age of The Pussyfoot,
by Frederik Pohl. Published by Ballantine in 1966 Additional resources -
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