"[Making transistors out of plastic rather than silicon] could greatly expand the range of objects that connect to the Internet, because electronic connections would be handled by a thin film or moldable material, rather than rigid chips. A thin screen could be bound into a magazine, for instance, and connect wirelessly to a Web site."

More than a few futurists have predicted the emergence of flexable computer screens and even entire computers that could be rolled up or folded and stuck in a pocket. With print advertising and the competition between traditional print and digital news delivery the way they are, why wouldn't this technology first reach the consumer market in the vehicle of a print periodical?

God save the magazine industry if advertisers push Quark-based layout artists to begin building motion graphics in After Effects.