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December 6, 2013

Welcome to Our Future World of Ubiquitous, Constant Information

Jim Kakalios: Personally, I’d like to be able to catch my thought every now and then.

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Back in 1995, Neil Stevenson wrote a novel, Diamond Age, that featured electronic books that featured electronic paper where you would unfold a sheet of paper and it would pick up the Wifi in the room and display the front page of a newspaper. Then you could press a button and continue the story reading on. We pretty much have that now. The only thing is, it’s not flexible. With organic semiconductors, that’s probably coming pretty soon.

I think maybe one thing that will happen is with our Smart Phones, they become smaller, if the technology gets integrated into our clothing or our eyeglasses, we might – if we choose to – live in an ubiquitous world of constant information. Personally, I’d like to be able to catch my thought every now and then.

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