12-16-2014, 07:55 AM
Re: iPhones
Mediatronic paper, from the novel The Diamond Age (which turns 20-years-old in a couple of months), can do anything an iPhone, iPad, or any other general purpose computer can; has far more processing power than all but the most powerful current supercomputers (possibly greater still, I'd have to dig out my copy of Nanosystems and do some calculations to be sure); and it is so inexpensive that it is casually given away, as we do with sheets of paper today, in the second half of the 21st Century.
Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 novel 2001 has newspads.
Mediatronic paper, from the novel The Diamond Age (which turns 20-years-old in a couple of months), can do anything an iPhone, iPad, or any other general purpose computer can; has far more processing power than all but the most powerful current supercomputers (possibly greater still, I'd have to dig out my copy of Nanosystems and do some calculations to be sure); and it is so inexpensive that it is casually given away, as we do with sheets of paper today, in the second half of the 21st Century.
Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 novel 2001 has newspads.