Sci-fi phone and the future of libraries

This is a few months old now, but exciting nevertheless: the cell phone company Nokia along with the University of Cambridge (UK) have come up with a pliable cell phone. The Nokia Morph nanotechnology model is still in the concept stage, and, according to the LetsGoDigital article, it shows that nanotechnology might be able to bring us: flexible materials, transparent electronics, and self-cleaning surfaces. The Wired has even come up with a slew of hilarous uses for this swanky device.

On the surface, this phone has nothing to do with libraries. However, it’s an established device in a new, unexpected package, flexible, and transparent. Now change the word device with service. Not a bad model for libraries of the future.