Ballet School, Paris (Ecole de danse del’Opera) by Brässaï, 1953
(Source: frenchtwist, via shortribbons)
“…while watching the program on the Newspad, a kind of flat portable TV device which can display any type of visual or printed material.”
Arthur C. Clarke has an imagination that borders on the prophetic. Or am I getting the cart before the horse? Maybe someone from apple was reading 2001 and almost skipped through the film frames in the middle of the book and then stopped on the Newspad (that’s really what it’s called) having read about it earlier and said to themselves, “Hey, we could do that!”
Oh, and Discovery sends and receives signals from earth and within itself by way of a “Radio-fax” which works much like the internet.
from 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark, 1968.
