Wild Card's progress: nominated
This Wild Card came from:
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD
The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card:
Theme 3 - ICT - Information & communication technologies
The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card:
Components, systems, engineering
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2025
Wild Card's description
It was spoken about paperless office and electronic books for long time, but none of considered elecronic technologies was able to reach excellence of the common paper until the " true electronic paper" has been developed. It has all the favoured features of common paper - lightness, bendability and flexibility - but it is indestructible. It is equiped with integrated high-density memory for thousands of pages of mulimedia content, and with wi-fi connection for online internet access. The mass use of this paper caused fundamental changes in European economy and primarily in everyday liife of European citisens.