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![]() Here are some of the quotes for "handipad" that occur throughout the book:
An interesting fictional try at this idea, not the least because the name of the device contains the word "iPad".
Compare to the newspad
from Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey and the calculator pad from Isaac Asimov's 1951 novel Foundation.
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