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| Trion Library | ||
| An early visualization of the Internet. |
| Trion can store not only luminescent images, reduced to a change in their crystal structure, that is images of book pages, not only all kinds of photographs, maps, images, graphs and tables – in other words, anything that can be observed by sight. Just as easily, Trion can store sounds, the human voice as well as music, there is also a way to record scent. |
| Technovelgy from The Magellanic Cloud,
by Stanislaw Lem. Published by Not Known in 1955 Additional resources -
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Compare to the description of tanks from A Logic Named Joe (1946) by Murray Leinster.
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