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Xerox Plans For The Future
With their history of computer innovations at PARC, Xerox can certainly be credited in some ways with creating ubiquitous computing, at least the ubiquitous part. This new article Xerox plans the future of today (courtesy of BBC news) talks about research they are doing in different areas these days.
While I was hoping to see more ubicomp stuff, the work is meaningful nonetheless. The erasable paper idea might be co-opted for interesting applications. For example, I imagine a laser beam which could update posters in a room with fresh new information.
I still like the idea, though, of digital ink where a display is thin like paper but can be updated like an LCD screen.
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