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"Cyberspace is a metaphor that allows us to grasp this place where since about the time of the second world war we've increasingly done so many of the things that we think of as civilization."
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Today, we'd call it a hologram.
James Matheson describes it this way in The Bureaucrat (1944):
Another early reference, often cited, appears in H. Beam Piper's Police Operation:
Compare to the solido from Chance of a Lifetime (1956) by Milton Lesser, the
solido projector from Dune by Frank Herbert and the solidograph from The Bureacrat (1944) by Malcom Jameson.
Compare this term to the idea of a stereoscopic television, or stereo tank, in Robert Heinlein's later story Stranger in a Strange Land.
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'...she dropped her hands from the wheel, took the robot snake from his box.'
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