If you're reading this in a newspaper, you're using a medium that's been centuries in the making and doesn't have all that much room for technical improvement.
Displays are a relatively unsung, though vital, piece of the technology world.
The industry has given us better products at lower prices in recent years. Now, however, we may be on the verge of some major leaps. Thanks in part to breakthroughs in chemistry, not just information technology, displays seem likely to make more progress in the next decade than they have in the past half-century. Some of the evidence was on, ahem, display last week at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, where the Society for Information Display held a conference and exhibition. Visitors could see an array of new technologies, with initials such as OLED and FED, that tell us where the market may be heading.