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“Thin, lightweight, handheld displays with very high resolutions are the preferred means for viewing documents. [By 2019.]”
Inventor, futurist and author of The Age of Spiritual Machines
Said 1999Deadline Dec 31, 2019The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), Chapter 10 ('2019'); assessed in 'How Ray Kurzweil's 2019 predictions are faring (pt 2)', Militant Futurist
Smartphones and tablets in 2019 were thin (sub-quarter-inch), light (ounces) and had pixel densities beyond the eye's resolving power, and had become the everyday medium for reading documents — though the companion claim that AR direct-eye displays would be even more common was wrong.