What Next...Sci-Fi to Reality
Arthur C. Clarke Predicted iPad
2001: A Space Odyssey - “When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug in his foolscap-size newspad into the ship’s information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up the world’s major electronic papers…Switching to the display unit’s short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him. Each had its own two-digit reference; when he punched that, the postage-stamp-size rectangle would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination…”
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Did Clarke predict it (art imitating life) or was it a case of Apple engineers remembering Clark's vision (life imitating art)?
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, the Newspad was the first thing I thought of when I saw the iPad.