But like all new technologis, epaper must become popular in 1st world nations before anyone would even consider making the technology available to developing countries. I don't think people will buy books bound with hundreds of sheets of epaper, the cost would be too much for most people, and eventually the book would wear out and you'd have to buy a new one. But if epaper supports multicolored animation then I think a single large sheet of epaper will replace flat screen monitors. It would be lightweight and portable, readable in full sunlight, and disposable (recyclable too). This is, after all, what is needed in poor countries.
At any rate I think these issues illustrate the democratic nature of the internet and it's influence on the world. Electronic anarchy is doing what no government would dare to do.
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