Whoa. The book was written by Arthur C. Clarke, not Kubrick. It's been many years since I read it, but as I recall the thing in the picture you show wasn't a pad, it was the surface coating of the console itself - the paint, if you will. Probably not too far off, once flexible e-ink displays become cheap enough we can at least lay them on a surface. Not sure how long before we can 'paint' a surface with interactive displays.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:21 AM, David D Odell <waffenf...@atlanticbb.net> wrote: > Is it just me or does the iPad (finally) look like the flatscreen tablets > predicted in Kubrick's 2001? > > http://cecelia.physics.indiana.edu/life/chess.jpg ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
