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From: janssen@titan.sw.mcc.com (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Trend toward personal management
Message-ID: <2251@titan.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 16 Apr 89 23:12:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: garye@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Gary_Ericson)

In article <2190002@hp-ptp.HP.COM>, garye@hp-ptp (Gary_Ericson) writes:
>The trick is that it has to be *better* than the paper version.  Make the
>interface the same only better - extend the interface to allow the user to go
>beyond what he/she could with the paper version.  What would that interface be
>like?

Digital paper?

BYTE had an article recently on floppies that could store in WORM fashion,
a gigabyte per one 5 1/4 inch floppy, using a new plastic laminate as the
floppy material.  The laminate is called digital paper.

But perhaps the *real* digital paper would be a plastic laminate that had
millions of tiny flexible LCD pixels in matrix, with piezoelectric sensors
to detect the touch of a stylus, with a "communication dot" in one corner
that would allow a clip on the end of a wire from a PC to connect to it.
Imagine that the (latest) image could be preserved when power was removed.
Perhaps the real computer advances are waiting to be made by chemists and
plastics engineers.

Bill