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Those working in the industry often know what's coming. What they often get wrong is how it's economically deployed, when it arrives, or what effects it will ha
by ashleyn 8y ago
Those working in the industry often know what's coming. What they often get wrong is how it's economically deployed, when it arrives, or what effects it will have.
- vidarh 8y agoE.g. the first articles on capacitive touch screens dates to the 50's, and the "flat-panel" Aiken tube display dates to the early 50's as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiken_tube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiken_tube Article on the Aiken tube from 1958 with pictures that predicts future models may be flat enough to "hang like picture frames": https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r98DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA104&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r98DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA104&re... Seing the potential of going from normal TVs to that, it's certainly not a big leap to assume they'll get even thinner and smaller.