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Comments on Mr. Bradbury, Your TV Parlor (Reality Deck) Is Ready
'But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlor?'- Ray Bradbury, 1953. (Read
the complete story)
| "This will work until we get Vinge's wallpaper displays." ( 11/23/2012 8:19:23 AM) |
| "Ah, the latest data cave is ready! That's Cave Automatic Virtual Environment, of course, at the University of Illinois. I also thought about the Prime Radiant from Asimov's Foundation series." (Ed 11/23/2012 1:37:20 PM) |
| "Anyone remember the Holodeck from Star Trek: The Next Generation? When it was off, the walls were black with a yellow grid.
This "reality deck", when it's on, looks like an inversion of that: Bright images with a black grid. " (Gatomon41 11/24/2012 12:35:35 PM) |
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