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I for one look forward to even thinner / more flexible eInk type display units. While 10 years is an eternity in technology it's also not very long at all, so I wouldn't expect to see a major upheaval again so soon - maybe in 15yrs. Consider that back in 2000 we were all getting our mp3's, videos and such; all we've done since is refine the devices that display them.
In my view, there's a huge battle going on now however between independents and mega-corps; concurrently the independents are pushing for open-access/DRM-free/common-standards and the mega-corps are pushing for tighter controls, dreaming of the day of per-view/per-eyeballs payments. Which way the war will go is hard to say at the moment, however with the strong push towards open-standards I'm hoping that mega-corps are forced back to winning market share and profits based on quality of content rather than lock-in.
Paul.
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