The Australian IT Section Reports thin flexible displays known as electronic paper, or e-paper, are starting to come of age and appear in autotellers, kiosks and portable devices.
Research labs have touted their advances but there have been few mass market products to date.
Fujitsu recently showed off e-paper with vivid colour images that are unaffected when the screen is bent.
Its e-paper requires little power, making it suitable for displays such as advertisments.
Any day now, right?
– Kounta, J. (1992). Tomorrow’s libraries: More than a modular telephone jack, less than a
complete revolution – Perspectives of a provocateur. Library Hi-Tech, 10(4), p. 39.
Re:Any day now, right?
One minor but important error: The writer’s name.
That’s Kountz with a Z, John Kountz, that is–and it’s fair to say that his over-the-top predictions had a lot to do with a chunk of my writing and speaking from 1992 through 1999 (and beyond, to some extent).
Actually, you could define “total commerce in information” in a way that makes that particular prediction correct–you can manipulate those definitions almost any way you want. It’s the sentence right before that quote that really got me going:
“In the next five years or so, the market for–and the availability of–information printed on paper can be anticipated to shrink by 50 per cent.”
Bwahahahah…