Electronic libraries. and paperless office -Reply

[Sheryl Dwinell]

>> Anyway, the choice is *not* between paper and computer
>> moniters. The future information displays system will be a
>> combination of printing and computer monitors:
>> electronic-ink, or e-ink, which combines the portability,
>> readability, and (hopefully) durability of paper with the
>> storage capacity and networking capability of computers.
>
>
>That I'd like to see. How would such a system look like. 
>(I'm envisioning something like an LCD screen, but I feel somewhat
>limited by my own imagination at this time).

There's a guy at MIT (of course), whose name escapes me at the moment, who
is working on something like this. As I recall, it's a thin sheet (not
paper thin), actually I guess it's two sheets, and in the middle is
something like black particles of some composition that react to electric
stimuli to form text. I'm not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination
so I may be botching this description badly. I think I read about it in
Wired? I don't know what sort of success he's having. There are probably
others working on similar devices. Maybe one of the listmembers from MIT
can chime in on this. 



 
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