{"id":11289,"date":"2006-11-28T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/11\/xerox-intros-self-erasing-paper.html"},"modified":"2006-11-28T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T15:19:48","slug":"xerox_intros_self_erasing_paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/xerox_intros_self_erasing_paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Xerox intros self-erasing paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks up the road at Xerox PARC (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adobe_systems\">onetime home<\/a> of the Adobe founders) have been busily developing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/27\/technology\/27xerox.html?_r=2&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">a new kind of paper that erases itself<\/a> after 16 hours or so.&#160; The idea is to reduce waste by letting people reuse some of the large percentage of paper that&#8217;s printed &amp; recycled in short order&#8211;often on the same day.&#160; More details are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/news\/24945.html\">press release<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The story provides some background on the research that gave rise to this technology: &#8220;What she has discovered is a notable change in the role of paper in modern offices, where it is increasingly used as a medium of <u>display rather than storage<\/u> [emphasis added]. Documents are stored on central servers and personal computers and printed only as needed; for meetings, editing or reviewing information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see what, if any, role this technology plays in a world of email, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electronic_paper\">electronic paper<\/a>, etc.&#160; \u201cI worry that this would be like coming out with Super 8 just before the video camera,\u201d says consultant Paul Saffo.&#160; Time will tell. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/business\/xerox_develops_erasable_copier_paper_5051.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>PS&#8211;At the other end of the permanence spectrum, tattooing has become so popular that even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weirdasianews.com\/2006\/11\/22\/chinese-fish-get-tatoos\/\">Chinese fish are doing it.<\/a>&#160; No word on whether &quot;Shanghai Ink&quot; will be airing soon. [Via]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks up the road at Xerox PARC (onetime home of the Adobe founders) have been busily developing a new kind of paper that erases itself after 16 hours or so.&#160; The idea is to reduce waste by letting people reuse some of the large percentage of paper that&#8217;s printed &amp; recycled in short order&#8211;often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}