Word: telescreen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Digital display screens visible above highways, warning of icy bridges ahead and detours, will become even more ubiquitous and varied. So will the long- awaited telescreen for seeing and being seen by those you talk with on the telephone. Carl Ledbetter, president of AT&T's Consumer Products division, predicts that ``in a decade, every phone will have a screen on it.'' At Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California, where the PC, on-screen icons and the laser printer originated, Mark Weiser, manager of the computer science laboratory, envisions a world in which flat-panel screens bearing...