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"Looking back through history, I see no evidence for humanity making the best of things, and I think it's a pretty safe bet that's an on-going trend."
- Richard Morgan
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| Vistascreen | ||
| Large screen entertainment. |
I thought the name of this idea was really enjoyable.
| “We have few of the stadium entertainments I’m told you Terrans like,” she said. “We have many very fine dramas and art shows, but those are available only on the vistascreen and broadcasts are available only on sets in the privacy of individual rooms. Thus the enjoyment of them is not subject to interruptions. |
| Technovelgy from Assignment to Aldebaran,
by Kendall Foster Crossen. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1953 Additional resources -
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The vistascreen has other admirable properties:
“My second cousin’s nephew,” said
Senula Di, “is one of the finest four-
sense photographers in Yllia.”
“Four-sense photographer?” Laertes
asked.
“Not only are the pictures three dimensional to sight and touch, but they
give off appropriate subtle perfumes,
and the sounds are recorded on the
frame.”
Compare to the parlor walls from Fahrenheit 451 (1953), by Ray Bradbury and the transparent flat panel display from The Shape of Things To Come (1936), by H.G. Wells.
“This is a monient of some sentimental importance to me,” Laertes
said, dabbing at. an imaginary tear. “I
should like to have a souvenir of the
occasion. I realize that you use cameras
for your vistascreens, but I wonder if
you have a photographer who might
take a picture of our little gathering?”
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