From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Oct 09 1997 - 08:19:41 MDT
Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
>Not quite as dazzlingly futuristic as my prediction of last year,
>but pretty damned nifty. And set to change the entire process of
>traditional bookselling in very much less than 15 years. Yippee
> I think. (Anyone got any more details on this development?)
As a couple of people have pointed out, this was the subject of an
article in WIRED a few months ago.
A smart-paper book was also the key element in Neil Stephansons
wonderfull Nanopunk novel of a couple of years ago "The Diamond
Age" subtitled "Or a young ladies illustrated primer."
Brian
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