Grrr... I had a nice long post until acroread crashed my browser. Fuck you, Adobe! :-P
Anyway, I will recap...
Seimens has announced a low cost epaper. You know the moving pictures on the newspapers in Harry Potter? That is now a reality.
With Harry Potter having such universal appeal with children, and technology will allow us to emulate aspects of Harry Potter's world, I can't help but wonder if "witch" will be the new design crazy. Just as art deco drew on litterature from the past, will we have a Potter era of buildings?
Though it is impossibly to determine what the future hold, it hasn't stopped our ancestors from trying. Here is what generations past thought the future would be like:
http://davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm