Could you cut up a graphene sheet? Will it feel like paper? Can you wipe you bottom with it and send it back into the environment? Can you origami your graphene and then turn it into a liquid squash mixed with glue and cover a balloon with it, or make your own graphene for writing personalised letters?

We don’t often think of paper as a technology in its own right but when you sit and think about it you’ve got to admit it’s a marketer’s delight. Simple proven product, ubiquitous, malleable, various sizes and formats, cheapish to produce and transport, pick your nose with it if you have to in the car while the mrs buys milk…

If we were ever going to invent something worth gazillions of dollars the thing to emulate would be the historic success of paper as a technology. It’s enabled by language like our computer is enabled by electricity.

And while I read a few online e-books it’s nowhere near the experience of laying on the couch folding and bookmarking and throwing at the doggies…

Interesting link though, looks promising for a lot of applications. Not going to cure the paperless office though, I’d expect.