[MGP-Forum Announce] The perfect device for the 20th century book model....

[Dan Kennedy]

Tom --

You're talking about the Roger Fidler digital tablet, as thin, flexible, and
high-res as a magazine, and so cheap that newspapers would give them away.
We're still waiting.

Not to blame this on Roger, who's a very sharp guy.

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Dan Kennedy
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Northeastern University
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On 9/30/06 1:54 PM, "tom stites" <tstites at uua.org> wrote:

> I agree that the Sony device is probably a dud, a transitional technology at
> best.  Twenty-five years ago the now-defunct Knight-Ridder was sinking
> millions into a research shop in Colorado that was gearing up for what news
> would be like when everybody was going around with devices such as these --
> and the presumption was that it was going to happen any day.  After a few
> years of waiting, nothing happened, and K-R shut down its dream shop.  And
> now a quarter century has elapsed.
> 
> But I do think that some device will burst on the world one of these days
> the way the Walkman did, or PDA did, or the cell phone did.  But we ain't
> seen it yet.
> 
> Whatever the medium, what really matters is the quality and character of
> what people read and otherwise experience when using it.  And therein lies a
> huge challenge.
> 
> Tom