Word: sheets
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...digital ink can be printed together with the circuits for wireless transmission onto a generously sized tabloid sheet tough as Tyvek. The tabloid sits on the table all day, as news articles come and go. All the typographic conventions of a newspaper or magazine are obeyed, but the paper doesn't come and go. It stays...
...page will not die. It is too handy and highly evolved. The same flat sheet of enhanced paper is so nimble, in fact, that there is no reason why a movie could not be played on it as well. Drama, music videos, great epics in full color all dance across this new page. The eternal sheaf becomes both book and TV screen. Indeed the resolution will be fine enough to read words floating in, around and through cinematic images. We see the beginnings of that already on some websites where image and text intermingle. Is this a movie...
FUTURISTIC MATERIALS A diamond's extraordinary clarity and strength make it an ideal building material, but also terribly hard to work with. Nanobots, however, could make diamonds in any shape at all--a sheet a few millimeters thick, say, to make a scratchproof window. And because the basic feedstock is ordinary carbon, these diamonds are as cheap as glass...
...wouldn't know that, of course, by looking at the company's balance sheet, which makes Donaldson's job all the more challenging. Last week, just as he was nursing a deal to sell Aetna's financial-services and international units to Dutch firm ING Group for as much as $9 billion, Aetna was being sued for taking its sweet time paying bills to a number of New York hospitals. (Aetna says it is hopeful they can resolve the issue through negotiations.) There are also restless shareholders, who watched the stock fall nearly 60% in the past year before...
Today I rejoice in my graduation from Harvard College. And, I pay my respects to my alma mater, The Harvard Crimson. Keep the old sheet flying...