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		damian2000 on May 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: William Gibson: Seeing the Future in Science Ficti... Yeah I was also interested to hear his 'console cowboy' for what we'd now call a hacker. I was reading one of his newer books called Pattern Recognition... it came out well before the iPad, and yet in it he's describing an 'iBook' tablet computer device as more widely used than the laptop.

adrianhoward on May 29, 2012 [–]

Heh. He was talking about http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook :-) iBook was a type of Apple laptop during the period PR is set.

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