Only if you want this technology immediately. It's not only the advent of newer technology that drives current prices of current technology down. But aslo product saturation and direct market competition will do that as well.

Here's another good example of technology making it to the masses, Solid State Harddrives, compare this to computer systems 10-15 years ago.

2gb continuous transfer speeds from a personal computer? Craziness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

I presume you want it mobile as well, like in that vin disel movie with the touch screen map.

The only problem is how will you power it? battery technology right now isn't flexible and its not thin either. Until we find a new power source there won't be any 100% flexible and paper thin screens yet

likewise with that touch screen credit card, if it is as thin as a credit card, and the entire card is a display... what would power it??? and how would u charge it? maybe solar power? so it absorbs energy? but how would u store that energy? flexible micro capacitors? what about night time?

i think we need a breakthrough in battery technology. li-ion was first introduced in 1991, and there haven't been significant changes other than longer life and higher density.

Your kidding, right?

20 years ago, NO ONE had a computer. no one ever thought they would have a computer either, and if you tried to describe to them that one day, everyone would be able to write on a noteboard that anyone around the world could see instantly, they would think you were a spaceman.

15 years ago, to buy a computer you had to be pretty well off. most basic systems were in the $2500 range and didnt do much other than provide an alternative to a type writer. maybe 10% of people i knew had a computer in 1994.

now you can pick up a brand new computer complete for $400 and i would say 95% of households in canada have a computer, even poor people.

i thought i watched a youtube demonstration video of something where someone invented a way to wirelessly power something. the technology might be in its early stages, but its a start.

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We now have hand-held computers that have more processing power then the the space-shuttle that went to the moon. Do you really think it's going to take that long to find a new-advanced form of power? I don't. As someone above me stated, they have wireless power sources now (even if in the early stages of development). Put the two together, and there's your answer.

if the would really ends up like that one the distant future, id be pretty happy to see it actually. innovation at its best

i don't object to that. but compare the difference between computing power in 1991 with 2009. now compare battery technology in the same constraint. it has not improved as significantly as computer tech has.

it took 10+ to even begin "wireless" power. wireless power was already present (powered oral-b toothbrushes) but the distance is a constraint. also it is also transmitted through laser (directed), its not like a wireless router where electronics can just feed off of it regardless of location.

think about the consequences to your health by transmitting power from multiple sources all over in your environment, it could be decades before it will be deemed safe by public health.

and think about how that technology would trickle down to the consumer level? the developmental/research and funding required that would have to happen for a company to mass produce a wireless power supply and at what cost to the consumer when we can simply plug it in with a wire?

i would love to see a breakthrough in wireless power, but i doubt it will be in my lifetime, because it just doesn't seem feasible at this point.

you do know that when your parents were in highschool there werent even calculators? one of the most basic computer functions didnt exist a generation ago.

whats that technology ratio? 10-1 or something? technology is advancing at a rate where more is learned in the last decade than the previous hundred years.

I can understand why the battery industry has not had the same advances in say in the computer/internet industry simply because computers have a far more vested interest than batteries did.

As soon as computers/technology no longer can operate without some feat of a new battery design/concept, it will happen. As soon as everyone shifts from advancing computers and start investing in new power sources it will happen. And it already has begun with the environmentally friend stages. It is only a matter of time before the whole battery and power industry catch up with technology.

there is already a huge gap between the two groups.