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"  (Photo Credit: CPI/YouTube) This vision of the airliner of the future could be revelatory or nightmarish\u2014depending upon how you feel about being constantly reminded that you&amp;#039;re 35,000 feet in the air. A British technology firm called the Centre for Process Innovation just released these images of a passenger plane that instead of windows has enormous smart screens showing you a picture of the world outside. CPI wants to mount flexible OLED screens along the walls of the airliner&amp;#039;s cabin and cameras on the exterior. The cameras&amp;#039; real-time footage would be projected onto the screen\u2014hopefully eliminating any panicky feelings that might arise in passengers who already have no leg room and now find themselves trapped in a windowless tube. The illustration looks a bit ridiculous, as if the airplane wore green and then walked in front of a green screen. And it seems wrong on some spiritual level, sort of like those modern sports cars that pipe engine sounds into the cabin through speakers. However strange a windowless plane appears, though, the CPI might be onto something, because windows are wasteful. Sure, plane windows allow you to take shots of your plane&amp;#039;s wing that you&amp;#039;ll load to Instagram as soon as you land. They also keep people sane and give window-seat lovers like me something to gawk at while our minds wander. But windows actually make a plane heavier, partly because of the window material itself, and partly because the rest of the plane must be reinforced. And more weight equals more fuel consumption, which is what CPI wants to stop. We&amp;#039;re all for saving fuel. Although I must say, I fear that a giant screen inside a plane makes for a rather tempting target for mischievous hackers. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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