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the case is absurd and I'm all against Apple position, but in the video from 2001 it is unclear if we are seeing tablet PCs or simply two integrated flat TVs in

by antirez 15y ago

the case is absurd and I'm all against Apple position, but in the video from 2001 it is unclear if we are seeing tablet PCs or simply two integrated flat TVs in the table. The problem is that the two devices are positioned exactly in the same way, specularly.

ugh 15y ago
They are supposed to be tablets and are actually moved in the film. This whole sequence has a lot of footage of the tablets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEDmNh-_4Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEDmNh-_4Q Here is a movie poster where you can also see the same tablet in more detail (on the Moon!): http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/2001apr08.jpg http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/2001apr08.jpg Here is an excerpt from Arthur C. Clarke’s book: “When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized 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; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and had no need to consult the list on the back of his pad. 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.”
- chernevik 15y ago
  You beat me! But this bit is fun: "Floyd sometimes wonder if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications.... 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."
  - WalterBright 15y ago
    Clarke also foresaw the ipod in his book "Imperial Earth" (calling it a minisec).
cylinder714 15y ago
If you look at the Blu-ray version of 2001, you can see that they're IBM TelePads.

by antirez 15y ago

ugh 15y ago

They are supposed to be tablets and are actually moved in the film. This whole sequence has a lot of footage of the tablets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEDmNh-_4Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEDmNh-_4Q Here is a movie poster where you can also see the same tablet in more detail (on the Moon!): http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/2001apr08.jpg http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/2001apr08.jpg Here is an excerpt from Arthur C. Clarke’s book: “When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized 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; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and had no need to consult the list on the back of his pad. 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.”

chernevik 15y ago
You beat me! But this bit is fun: "Floyd sometimes wonder if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications.... 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."
- WalterBright 15y ago
  Clarke also foresaw the ipod in his book "Imperial Earth" (calling it a minisec).

cylinder714 15y ago

If you look at the Blu-ray version of 2001, you can see that they're IBM TelePads.