Second paper: Evolution of e-paper

Despite the abundance of screens, people still prefer to read from paper. whether "electronic paper" Will oust the present?

Developments in this region, there are already three and a half decades, yet with access to mass market a welcome innovation must completely change our habits related to reading, writing and learning. It is possible that we are on the verge of a revolution, which can only be compared to the same technical miracle of the XV century - the invention of the printing press. Electronic paper is flexible, consumes negligible amounts of energy, cheap and practically feasible, and most importantly - easy and convenient to use. It is not time to go to the end of the next decade, and we have become accustomed and to libraries, fits on microchips, and to the disappearance of most of the papers are printed on paper. Coming "second paper revolution".

In the 1970s, the Xerox Research Center in Palo Alto (PARC) played the role of technological progress of the locomotive. That there were stand and are embodied such attributes of the future of the computer world as a computer "mouse", the laser printer, Ethernet network, the graphical user interface, color graphics and a host of advanced programming languages. In 1974, one of the employees PARC Nicholas Sheridon developed another new product, which is almost lost in the turbulent flow of the revolutionary inventions, - Gyricon (from the Greek - "rotating image"). In the end, it is this idea formed the basis for e-paper.