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"Beyond a thousand years from now humans are not quite recognizably human, and I have trouble finding characters."
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![]() In Neal Stephenson's seminal 1992 novel Snow Crash, Hiro Protagonist is given an amazing service - ordinarily available only to the wealthy - for free.
This is a remarkable prediction of several real-world services that are only just now becoming available - Google Earth and VPlanet Explorer. If you want to be as cool as possible while interacting with your display, take a look at Minority Report Glove Interface.
Earlier science fiction writers touched on the subject of real world displays - see the entry for interactive map from Stanislaw Lem's 1961 classic Return from the Stars. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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The Dune Ornithopter, Movie And Book
'The wings were at full spread-rest, their delicate metal interleavings extended.'
100X Improvement In DNA Information Storage
'A record that wouldn't get lost and couldn't be destroyed.'
Should We Train AIs To Imagine A Future Of Horrific Disasters
'LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE.'
Mouth Haptics Invented By Frederik Pohl In 1965, CMU Now Has Prototype
'What he got was indeed a kiss. It was disconcerting. No kissing lips were visible.'
Update: Musk Doubles Down On Optimus Prime Humanoid Robot
'I shall introduce myself. I am R. Daneel Olivaw... I am a robot. Were you not told?'
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