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"The point sticks in your head: physics rules. Virtue does not triumph unless the physics allows it."
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![]() Everything that William Gibson describes in his novels is something you want. It's irritating to have to wait.
In the novel, the control-face was actually a part of the computer itself. It was like being able to detach a touch screen display from the computer and then take it with you, remaining in control of the remote computer system.
On the other hand, those of you who have not yet read this novel are closer than we were in 1998, when, as I recall, the Palm Pilot was the thing to have, even though you couldn't control your remote computer with it. It was a bit thick for a control-face, and after a short wait, there was a backlight for the LCD.
For the "classic sf" view, you might also want to look at the Calculator Pad, from Isaac Asimov's Foundation. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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