The world’s collective knowledge on a single page
e-Paper and e-Readers continue to spawn a lot of interesting ideas - and generate new affordances. A great example is an offline version of Wikipedia, which can be read on the Irex Iliad. It basically lets you access the full knowledge contained in the open-content encyclopedia on a single sheet of ePaper which you can carry anywhere, instead of reading on screen.
Sure, it probably does not have the look and feel, the gloss and illustrations of a real encyclopedia, but you can take it anywhere. Compare that to the 32,640 pages of Encyclopedia Britannica, in terms of weight, convenience and paper usage or environmental impact…
That’s a very good example of how Web 2.0 technologies can cross-fertilize with new Document technologies and generate interesting side effects that will probably shape the Future of Documents - Document 3.0.
