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Managing Director Jason Dill, Coordinating Director of the Unity system, is the highest ranking human in the world. He takes orders directly from Vulcan 3, the underground supercomputer that directs all human endeavor.
When asked a question by schoolchildren, however, he steps up to the interactive blackboard.
This is a very early description of an interactive display that is acted upon solely by gestures.
You can see a good representation of this idea a generation later in wired glove interface display from Spielberg's Minority Report (Movie). Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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