Toy Story: Are Those 5,000 Magazines in Your Messenger Bag, Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? is an excellent report by Gillian Reagan at The New York Observer about the first mobile digital reader made specifically for newspapers and magazines. The device can hold many magazines with content easily searchable and indexed. Once a consumer has the device, they would not need a retailer for new issues. They hope to have this product on the market sometime next year.
It’s all pie in the sky Mark, these dudes want you to think that everybody will have to buy a device to read anything that is printed. The problem with technology is that it’s cumbersome in that it’s got to be charged up, in range, sturdy, be handy and the last one dirt cheap . What I presume will happen is that these people will create E waste that is far worse than we have now to deal with. Joe Strummer once said “the future is unwritten” makes you think .
Paul, it may be pie in the sky – time will tell. We need to be aware of these reported developments and make our own informed decisions.