That new Apple announcement… January 27, 2010Posted by WorldbyStorm in Uncategorized.
A little more advanced one would presume than this, from Arthur C. Clarke’s Imperial Earth, 1976:
The ‘Sec was the standard size of all such units, determined by what can fit comfortably in the human hand. At a quick glance, it did not differ greatly from one of the small electronic calculators that had started coming into general use at the end of the twentieth century. It was, however, infinitely more versatile, and Duncan could not imagine what life would be like without it.
Because of the finite size of clumsy human fingers, it had no more controls than that of its ancestor of three hundred years earlier. There were fifty neat little studs; each, however, had an unlimited number of functions, according to the mode of operation – for the character visible on each stud changed according to the mode.
Although, in fairness, that sounds like a Blackberry. Minus a large screen (the Minisec links to larger fixed computer consoles… no laptops in this future…).