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The Mediatron: Thought up by Neil Stephenson, author of "The Diamond Age", given passing reference in the mildly-interesting Minority Report, and generally typical of our current vision of the future. The concept of the Mediatron, a cheap, disposable, and flexible display, is not exactly new. Now it's not exactly fiction. SIEMENS, the tech giant, has successfully manufactured a cheap, flexible, disposable display. It's expected to hit the market in 2007. The technological limitations have been eliminated, and now it's just a question of compacting the control circuitry and speeding the response times. This is both good and bad. On the one hand, picture unrolling your computer, or pulling a crumpled web browser from your pocket. On the other hand, picture every advertisement you've ever seen, only now, they're motion-sensitive FMV's. This is going to rock and suck, all at once.