My dream of a future tablet – true e-Paper.
Following on from my recent article, entitled: The future of News services where I discussed the potential of advertising and subscription funding journalism rather than making exclusive content chargeable, I came across this wonderful R&D work being performed by Bonnier and Berg (Designers and practitioners in electronic and mechanical engineering, industrial design, 3D, animation, videography, visualisation, data-mining, coding and technical development).
From a technical and commercial perspective:
There are of course the protagonists who will suggest that no one can beat the ascetic feel of paper. I read once that original typed manuscriupts could show the intensity of the writers thoughts as he/she banged away at their mechanical type-writers! It has also been suggested that hyper-linking contributes to laziness on the part of the writer and reader as they can simply place a reference to a location rather than use exqusite terms and phrases.
What devices of this type offer is the greater availability of knowledge. If you wish to enjoy a good book by the fireplace – that is fine too.
What will be great for us humans is the ability to develop a new genre of reading with interactivity and dynamic information facilitating the development of more imaginative/ inference based ideas.
I can see this as product a reality within the next few years. Interestingly, with Apple rumoured to bring out a larger tablet / i-phone device in Jauary 2010, could this help our economies to recover and provide greater content to enrich our souls and promote world harmony? The latter assumes that a more educated world leads to peace.
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