Electric pages - is this where the E Reader is going? - Intelligent Paper

E -Readers may be in a tactile page-like form soon

The great printing revolution that came from the printing press went to the next level with the E-readers from Kindle, Kobo and other formats in recent years.

So what is the next stage? Well, strangely enough, a sort of intelligent paper. Strange as this may seem, returning a form of paper, that can display data has been developed, so that you could in theory stream content such as text and pictures to it from a remote device.

By this method, you hold in your hands a one page 'book,' that you can refresh, access and use just like a Kindle reader subject to there being hot buttons in place!

Indeed, were you to be able to see motion picture on this format, this would be like special effects we saw on Disney films in the 1980's.

But perhaps that is already out of date? The Google glasses project recently showed we could see a virtual and interactive environment streamed to our eye glasses and field of vision.

And this does beg the point, do we actually need to go backwards to paper, even an 'electric' kind?

The answer could be yes or no.

Yes in the response that seeing a printed page is easier to retain in the mind than that learned from on a screen, No because paper may not be relevant as a data medium of the future.

But where have we heard that before? Digital picture frames?

We live in a more image-rich world than ever before, where the past and present are able to be accessed instantly and we can take thousands of pictures almost without cost for later recall, in fact how many of us organise our pictures to the degree that allows us easy access?

Perhaps the future is a central vault where you cloud-access your media, anywhere, anyplace, anytime through virtually equipped eyewear, or we go down the route of direct downloadable link to the brain, direct and vision transfer of data to and from the vault.

How safe will that be and how will you protect personal things and experiences you have seen from 'hackers' or 'Data Pirates?'

We may be getting ahead of ourselves here, but we need to plan ahead.

Whatever happened to the paperless office by the way?