I've read that one too I think. And there is also "The Sands of Mars" by Arthur C. Clarke in which the main character of Martin Gibson types his manuscripts (he's writing about the maiden journey of a new space ship he's traveling in) on paper which is then scanned so that an electronic copy can be beamed back to the Earth for reading by the public. Now days he'd probably have typed it on his netbook and sent it off to be beamed back that way.
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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
I was just reading Time for the Stars by Robert A. Heinlein (1956). The crew on the space ship are out in deep space and needing to either grow or recycle everything to survive. It made me smile to be reading a SciFi story on electronic paper about the crew of some future space craft who were having to recycle paper for their morning newspaper  |