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Re:Some Day, You’ll Have a Telephone with a Screen and Be Ab... by ashleyn on Sunday January 13, 2019 @08:00AM (#18896499)
Those working in the industry often know what's coming. What they often get wrong is how it's economically deployed, when it arrives, or what effects it will have.
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Re:Some Day, You’ll Have a Telephone with a Screen and Be Ab... by vidarh on Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:36PM (#18897639)
E.g. the first articles on capacitive touch screens dates to the 50's, and the "flat-panel" Aiken tube display dates to the early 50's as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiken_tube

Article on the Aiken tube from 1958 with pictures that predicts future models may be flat enough to "hang like picture frames":

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r98DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA104&re...

Seing the potential of going from normal TVs to that, it's certainly not a big leap to assume they'll get even thinner and smaller.

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