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  • noun telecomputer

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Examples

  • The teleputer is a handheld device always connected to an infinite computing cloud network for which telephone conversations are merely one of an ever-growing number of applications.

    The Long-Term Questions for Apple - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Basically, it is the first successful manifestation of a concept originated by George Gilder a dozen years ago, to wit, the teleputer.

    The Long-Term Questions for Apple - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • He envisioned the teleputer as "a handheld device that's a fully functioning personal computer, digital video camera, telephone, MP3 player and video player."

    unknown title Philip Leigh <editorial@mediapost.com> 2009

  • It is the manifestation of a concept originated 15 years ago by technology evangelist George Gilder, teleputer.

    unknown title Philip Leigh <editorial@mediapost.com> 2009

  • Cal-Irvine had earned tenure with an essay arguing that the reason-versus-no-reason debate bout what was unentertaining in Himself’s work illuminated the central conundra of millennial après-garde film, most of which, in the teleputer age of home-only entertainment, involved the question why so much aesthetically ambitious film was so boring and why so much shitty reductive commercial entertainment was so much fun.

    Infinite Jest #10: On Endings « Gerry Canavan 2009

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