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"I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff."
- William Gibson
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| Smart Paper | ||
| A very slim thin-film transistor display. |
How thin is your computer display? Some of the newer laptops have displays in the upper part of the "clamshell" that are a quarter of an inch or less.
But, you want to talk thin ... how about paper-thin?
| Smart paper consisted of a network of infinitesimal computers sandwiched between mediatrons. A mediatron was a thing that could change its color from place to place... |
| Technovelgy from The Diamond Age,
by Neal Stephenson. Published by Bantam Books in 1995 Additional resources -
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Find out more about thin-film transistor LCD displays. They are a remarkably complex sandwich; it's hard to believe they could become thinner.
However, if you think about instant film (you take the picture, then the film paper itself is passed through a roller, which squeezes developer onto the paper) you realize that there is an image medium that is very thin already.
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