Arthur C Clarke’s Newspad: RSS & news aggregator

Author and futurist Arthur C Clarke is credited with predicting the emergence of a number of technologies, including a tablet-like device called a “Newspad”, which could serve the latest news stories from electronic versions of newspapers. So far more has been said about comparing the Newspad to PDAs or Tablet PCs, but the Newpad also worked in a very similar way to today’s news aggregators, or RSS feed readers. In the novelised version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, (chapter title “Moon Shuttle”