I last read this about 20 years ago. Re-reading it now - this is probably the best depiction of a "smart phone" in pre-web science fiction that I can think of.
24 March 2012
The Towers of Utopia
In this 1975 novel Mack Reynolds
equipped every resident of Skyler Deme with a "TV Phone" that was also a
"Universal Credit Card", and was routinely used to query "the
computers" as well as being a RFID-like access card.
I last read this about 20 years ago. Re-reading it now - this is probably the best depiction of a "smart phone" in pre-web science fiction that I can think of.
I last read this about 20 years ago. Re-reading it now - this is probably the best depiction of a "smart phone" in pre-web science fiction that I can think of.
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Oh, it included a fingerprint reader.
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