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Originally Posted by pdurrant
In 1964, Isaac Asimov wrote an article in the New York Times with predictions about 2014.
He got a remarkable number of things right, including predicting the iPhone and its use for reading as well as communicating:
"Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books."
(He got some things wrong as well, but he got the important one right - ebooks!) |
In Arthur C. Clarke's 1975 novel "Imperial Earth", written before the days of PCs or handheld computing devices, he describes a handheld device which changes the appearance of its controls depending on what function it's being put to - ie a tablet computer.