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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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'... the lens displays would be useless without a wearable computer to do the graphics.'
Small Town Wants 60 License Plate Readers
'the registration number which the traffic control automatically photographed as she left the controlway...'
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'It could maintain a steady six miles per hour...'
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'Then they press one of these here thirteen buttons...'
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'...without burning a single hydrocarbon molecule to injure the diseased atmosphere any further.'
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'Bird-like robots now descended from the ceiling of the theatre...'
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'The efficient robot waiter of the Sky Club had cleared away the remnants of an epicurean meal.'
Prototype 3D Printer Could Print Arteries In Seconds
'...in the tank the new body and the new mind and memory and life has taken almost instant form.'
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