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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Dashboard TV | ||
| A television placed in the dashboard of your car or similar vehicle. |
This seems like an early reference to this idea.
| Walter pushed aside the safety rail and jumped from the disc, down the three steps of the grapple and onto the ashes and cinders of the parking lot. In the gloom of early evening he could make out his wife's car; Betty sat watching the dashboard tv, oblivious of him and the silent struggle between the red-haired Naturalist and the gray-haired Purist. |
| From The Chromium Fence,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Imagination Magazine in 1955 Additional resources -
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I think that PKD would like the way that this Kenwood indash television receiver screen extrudes itself from the dashboard.
(Kenwood KVT-M707 indash television receiver)
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