eTravel Project

I subscribe to several magazines, I read from two to four newspapers and about twenty blogs a day. Except for the magazines, I read all the news on the Internet from my computer or Blackberry. According to a recent article on Newsweek, the printed media might be saved by technology in the near future. Here it explains how:

When scientists inside the MIT Media Lab began toying with “electronic paper” more than a decade ago, much of their enthusiasm focused on single killer app: a portable, paperless newspaper. E-newspapers would be a huge environmental win, eliminating the need to pulp trees and burn gasoline delivering the traditional folded parcels to readers’ driveways. Like many technologies, however, e-paper has been slow to take off. In the past year, since Amazon introduced its Kindle electronic reading device, thousands of Americans have experienced the pleasures of e-books—but for most people, e-newspapers aren’t yet a reality.

More at Newsweek.com