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Another staple of science fiction becomes reality
If I had a nickle for every time someone in a science fiction story “opaqued the windows” at the touch of a button, or did something equivalent, instead of drawing old-fashioned drapes, I’d…well, I’d have quite a few nickles.
Now electronic drapes have become reality.
UPDATE: Technovelgy.com has the lowdown on an early SF reference to these kinds of windows in Frank Herbert’s 1972 novel The Godmakers.
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