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Originally Posted by fjtorres
In fact, in the SF world, quite a few stories featured portable "ebook" readers that were projectors or goggles that used photographic film spools of text. It was the "obvious" evolution in an age without PCs and where microfiche archives were ubiquitous in the science and engineering world.
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Am just reading (on my Kindle...) "Icehenge" by KS Robinson, written c. 1980. He has a starship launching in the 23rd century with "a microfiche library of 40 million volumes".
I wonder if he wrote it on a typewriter?
One thing though, physical media are more resistant to corruption from things like cosmic rays. I have some floppy disks from the 90s I dearly wish I could read. And a few 19th C books that are perfectly fine.
The books in the case mentioned look quite legible after about 4 centuries.