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"Money to me is freedom, and freedom is essential. Money allows me to say that I will now devote my life to being me, rather than putting on my shoes and tie, and going to an office every day."
- Robert Silverberg
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| Metallic Display Scroll | ||
| A rollable video screen. |
Why carry around one of those bulky, inflexible tablets when you could just slip a display scroll into your pocket?
| Loki slipped a hand in his jacket. "You might find some of my surveillance video interesting." He withdrew a metallic scroll and offered it to Philips.
She took the metallic scroll and pulled the twin tubes apart to reveal a glossy, flexible video screen already glowing with electrical energy… |
| Technovelgy from Freedom,
by Daniel Suarez. Published by Dutton in 2010 Additional resources -
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The device could respond to user gestures taken from special gloves:
Another wave of his hand and the image switched to a high-def video...
Compare to a larger rollable display, the poster tv from Larry Niven's 1976 novel A World Out of Time. See also the pocket-sized polycarbon phone screen from Idoru, a 1986 novel by William Gibson.
Also, recall the rollable map display, beautifully rendered in the 2000 movie Red Planet.
Loki pulled at the air with his gloved hand and froze the image…
(Red Planet movie rollable map display)
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