Ars technica looks at how Star Trek foresaw the iPad back in 1987.
Maybe so, but Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick beat them by 19 years.
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Newspad, PADD, & iPad
Ars technica looks at how Star Trek foresaw the iPad back in 1987.Maybe so, but Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick beat them by 19 years.
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Was it the novelization of '2001-ASO' that had
Dr. Floyd reading newspaper headlines from
around the world during his flight?
That he couldn't imangine it being improved?
[Citation needed.]
Here's that citation:
It was hard to imagine how the system could be improved or made more convenient. But sooner or later, Floyd guessed, it would pass away, to be replaced by something as unimaginable as the Newspad itself would have been to Caxton or Gutenberg.
From 2001: A Space Odyssey , by Arthur C. Clarke.
Published by Del Rey in 1968
i believe the newspad was in the original 1966 star trek as well
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