I was reading an article the other day about development work being done on a tablet that looks and feels like paper, and I couldn't help but think, isn't it interesting – the more advanced we get, the more we yearn for simple, or the way it used to be.

We spent most of the last decade trying to get away from paper, investing our future in chips and bits that would enable us to reduce the use of paper and not read on paper.

And here we are, 2013, a month after the Mayan calendar ended, working on new research that would allow tablets "to look like that paper you just tossed in the trash", says the article.

In other words, we are using technology to reverse technology so that we can go back to the way it was.

According to the article, this flexible paper-computer, developed at Kingston's Queen's University, in collaboration with UK based Plastic Logic and Intel Labs, may redraw the image people have of computing.

Based on a plastic touch-screen powered by an Intel Core i5 Processor, the paper computer features 10 or more interactive displays or PaperTabs instead of using several apps or windows on a single display.

The people behind it says it may take three to five years before we can put our hands on it and when it does, each PaperTab could likely cost less than $100 – I guess that depends on how inflation goes.

And Roel Vertegaal, director of Queen's University's Human Media Lab, believes that within 10 years, most computers will feel like paper.

Full story:

www.webintravel.com//blog/a-story-about-paper-and-chickens--there-is-a-point_3515