6 Nov
2007
6 Nov
'07
1:48 p.m.
On 6 Nov 2007 at 15:16, der Mouse wrote:
No worse than any future-projection fiction's
blind spot, in that they
can't imagine technology that isn't, well, imagined yet.
The problem is that there were indeed technologies (not widely
deployed, granted) didn't look like a jug-in-a-box when most of this
stuff was penned. Thin-profile CRTs were a laboratory reality (used
a side-shooting electron gun and an array of wires to deflect the
beam, for example). Nor was plasma display anything particularly out
of the mind's reach. Rear-projection displays, etc. were long
realities.
Even after systems using plasma displays had been deployed (think the
70's PLATO terminal), futurists were still fixated on the jug.
Cheers,
Chuck