Thread: Isaac Asimov predicted reading ebooks on an iPhone
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Old 01-04-2014, 01:27 PM   #48
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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.
The Altair 8800 personal computer and a range of Hewlett-Packard handheld computing devices were on the market in 1975.
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