I'm beginning to see an accelerating trend toward a feasible, mega-resolution, inert electronic display. There are still design, technological, and legal hurdles toward mass adaptation. However, I think we will eventually do a good chunk of reading on electronic paper. Why? Much of our paper consumption is used on single-use viewing. The amount of paper we consume during our meetings at work that we probably won't really look at again is fairly sizable. This plus it's a cheap substitution for throw-away prints like newspapers, manuals, legal disclaimers, etc....
There's more boring stuff I can talk about, but the electronic distribution of text holds lots of promise. Just the possible of requesting dynamically user-specified formatted documents (for example getting books in overlapping Chinese and English translations, or Sanskrit, or anyother way you like) over the server is awesome.
I think I'll just post a picture of a latest e-reader prototype from China. And leave a link for more details,
here.
Neat....
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