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"I don't know why I write science fiction. The voices in my head told me to!"
- Charles Stross
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| Weather Room | ||
| A global weather center. |
| She had to pass through the main Weather Room on her way to her office. A great globe of the world occupied the center of the room, and it showed the weather at the moment on every part of the Earth. The globe was similar in purpose to the map in the Weather Council, but it had a few additional features. Every jet stream, density variation, inversion, every front, isobar, isallobar, isotherm, precipitation area, clouded area, and air mass showed on the globe. The globe was a mass of shifting colors, undecipherable to the untrained eye, making sense only to the mathemeteorologists who made up the technical staff of the Advisors. The curved walls of the room were covered with the instruments that made up the Weather Net, the senses of the Advisors. The entire room looked like something out of a nightmare with its seething globe and dancing lights and shimmering dials. Anna walked through without noticing with the callousness of long proximity. |
| Technovelgy from The Weather Man,
by Theodore L Thomas. Published by Analog in 1961 Additional resources -
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I was thinking this spherical display would be perfect for the weather room!
China’s screen technology is entering a new phase: flexible, durable, and built for immersive spaces. pic.twitter.com/zsm5ralEN9
— Dev Khanna (@CurieuxExplorer) May 23, 2026
Read the story at I Need An Outdoor Spherical Display.
Compare to the computer globe from Cold Front (1946) by Hal Clement, the visiglobe from Agent of Vega (1949) by James Schmitz and the spherical display from Surface Detail (2010) by Iain M Banks.
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