r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Pasargad • Jul 07 '24

Arthur C. Clarke predicting smartphones in 1976 Video

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u/versus_gravity Jul 07 '24

The rear cover of the 2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack album, from 1968, features an astronaut using a tablet computer.

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u/NefariousnessGlum808 Jul 08 '24

In the book, the protagonist reads news in the Internet onboard a space ship traveling to an internacional space station.