Article Idea:
Epaper is great - but it critically lacks physicality
suggested by Jon Lund on 2006/10/08
Just did this piece on electronic paper – you know: a computer screen, thin as paper, roll-able and bendable, presented two weeks ago i Aarhus Denmark. As an electronic newpaper It’s cool but still have some way to go.
More specifically: a computerscreen simply does not have the same appeal as an information-medium as does the printed newspaper. It lacks physicality. The concept of epaper therefore will have to be rethought and refined – but then it’ll have the potential as The new information medium.
I give a few hints as to what is needed. The developers should listen after “the sound of information being scrolled” I argue.
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Riccardo Fusaroli
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Posted 2006/10/11 @ 01:42AM with
An interesting development of your reflections would be:
a) how re-think e-paper for contents like online newspaper
b) how re-think contents for e-paper.
From what you say e-paper is not exactly like normal paper and not exactly like a computer, so it’s really stimulating to think about which consequences this should have.