Let’s imagine next generation of electronic paper. It is connected to internet and has a touch-sensitive surface to interact with its owner. It is something like i-phone but thinner, lighter, and cheaper.
Why would it be possible? Firstly, in ubiquitous internet world you won’t need any GSM-module. Secondly (because of the same reason) you won’t need memory device and high-speed processor. Finally, you won’t need heavy battery.
So “sticks-from-the-future” devices will be pieces of electronic paper — let’s call them “Origami cards” — which are by the way almost as cheap as a usual paper. So people will be able to have a lot of cards, share them with others, easily throw out old and buy new ones.
Origami card will become not individual device but universal mediator between a man and information, between different people. Origami cards will become doors in the Digital Ether.
Let’s see more technical details about Origami.
