Since last I wrote....
Apple has announced an iPad, which looks like the shape of the device that would be a suitable thing to behave like an electronic paper.
Amazon has its Kindle, which lets you load books onto it via the net.
I have no interest in owning a Kindle, not unless it comes with a bunch of money for books. But the iPad, hm, that could be fun if it was built correctly.
Welcome to Electronic Paper
Welcome to Electronic Paper. This is a new weblog by Edward Vielmetti to explore some of the ideas behind a stream of news and creativity that come from the collision between the world of computers and the world of paper.
More and more of our lives - our reading, our writing, our newspapers, our electronic medical records, our voting, our grocery lists and holiday cards and indie zines and baby photos - are starting out electronic and staying electronic. As we rush headlong to digitize I wonder what we are losing in the process. How many people struggle with keeping up with their email when a simple paper postcard once in a while would make more of an impact?
This blog will be explore the collision of the paper and electronic worlds, where they intersect happily and where they fight madly. I'm turning on a blog search for "electronic and paper" and will comment on what flies past, just to build a baseline. The other thing which I'll try for is a stream of scans of interesting paper artifacts, showing things that were done better (or at least differently) in another era.
Welcome for the ride! Do you have a paper ticket or an electronic ticket?
Categories
- Creativity in digital and paper media
- Digitally enhanced paper technology
- Digitization of books
- Education on paper and online
- Electronic books
- Electronic medical records
- Libraries and electronic documents
- Online newspapers and journals
- Paper in the workplace
- The law and electronic paper
- Thin flexible display technology
- Voter-verified paper records
Recent Posts
- This season's gift, the Kindle
- the differences between the online reader and the reader of the printed page
- Since last I wrote.... Apple
- Electronic paper overview in Communications of the ACM, Nov. 2009
- Kindle, first sighting in the wild
- CommentPress
- Collaborating on document preparation electronically
- Answering an electronic interrupt with a paper response
- Electronic medical records scorched in UK fire
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