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"We're about 20 minutes away from the point where Clarke's law kicks in and technology becomes indistinguishable from magic."
- Peter Watts

Flexible Wall Sheet Display  
  A large clear sheet that displays information.  

This seems to be the basic idea for a very large OLED or other clear plastic display.

Against one wall a wide sheet of clear material suddenly flared with light and swirling colour. It steadied and a woman stared from the screen. A woman with long dark hair and eyes that were like twin pools of midnight beneath her heavy brows. She wore a dress of some shining black material and her full lips were red against the whiteness of her skin. Curt stared at her, savouring her remarkable beauty, and was barely conscious of the hush which settled over the restaurant.

"An important announcement from the Matriarch ... That is all."

Her image shifted and dissolved in a writhing mass of colour...

Technovelgy from The Mechanical Monarch, by E.C. Tubb.
Published by Ace Books in 1958
Additional resources -

This is an extra-large size version of the flexible displays like that of the Philips Readius E-Reader (you can see a brief Philips Readius rollable display video as well).

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  More Ideas and Technology from The Mechanical Monarch
  More Ideas and Technology by E.C. Tubb
  Tech news articles related to The Mechanical Monarch
  Tech news articles related to works by E.C. Tubb

Flexible Wall Sheet Display-related news articles:
  - Largest OLED Display
  - Nanowire Electronics Transparent And Flexible
  - Flapping Display From Samsung Breezy OLED
  - Waveface Flexible OLED Tablets
  - Large Flexible Plastic Sheet Displays
  - Samsung Flexible 3D AMOLED Display
  - ASU Full-Color Flexible Display World's Largest?
  - Roll-Up Flexible Displays May Use Source Gated Transistor Sheets
  - LG Display's 18 Inch Flexible OLED Panel Is Awesomely Cool
  - World's First Full-Colour, Flexible Thin-Film Reflective Display
  - Super-Thin Smart Glazing Displays
  - LG's Rollable Newspaper Display
  - LG's Rollable Display Video Is Amazing
  - TCL CSOT 17-Inch Printed OLED Scrolling Display

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