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"I share the view of Pythagoras that the world is number. The ultimate substrate of the universe is math. There's no way to test that - it's pure metaphysical speculation."
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I think this item is an accurate prediction of the Tablet PC, as well as the current use of PDAs and notebook-sized computers. As usual, Clarke gives us a great sense of how the artifact is used by the people of 2001.
It should be noted that the true size of this portable computer is roughly 17 x 13.5 inches, that being the size of traditional foolscap (or possibly 8.5 x 13.5 inches, which is also traditional usage, being the size of a foolscap sheet folded once). The "Foolscap" watermark was traditionally used to identify the size of the paper sheet.
Here is a look at the way Stanley Kubrick imagined the Newspad in his film @001: A Space Odyssey:
Bruce Sterling picks up this idea and uses it in Deep Eddy (1992):
The elderly European brightened swiftly. He flipped open a newspad, tapped through its menu, and began alertly scanning a German business zine. Compare to the blue optic plate from EM Forster's 1910 The Machine Stops. Comment/Join this discussion ( 6 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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