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Article: The coming of the tablet PC: will these be the little computers that transform education? .
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- District Administration
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- January 1, 2003
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Roger Fidler predicted the future of computing more than 20 years ago. The recent slate of tablet PCs is evidence that Fidler's vision has begun to arrive.
Fidler is probably not even on the list of names that come to mind when you think of high tech. That's probably because he's a newspaper man with more than 30 years in the business, much of it with Knight-Ridder. But he's no ordinary newspaperman. He predicted in 1981 that portable flat-panel reader devices called tablets would one day be used to display newspapers, books and other documents. Amazingly, these predictions were made before the commercialization of the Internet and before USA Today existed.
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