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e-Paper’s Military Achilles Heel
by Andrew McCaskey
Wetware Search
The excitement over the Kindle 2, the various e-paper prototypes offering extended life and flexibility have captured the minds of individual consumers, managers, and military alike. Increadible battery life / solar power, ruggedness and ability to be read in direct sunlight are all powerful positives.
One thing that better be on those devices is a very strong search. If a young soldier technician has a ruggedized Kindle with the equivalent of 1200 hard back books and references, he had better be familiar with the content and have the ability to search those documents quickly. His expectations have been set by Google, and if the embedded search is not at least that good, the information that is needed is as good as locked up, regardless of its physical manifestation.
A Kindle is no substitute for experience, knowledge, and the ability to make connections between observations, situatiions, and bits of information – no matter how elegantly those bits are stored. That’s Wetware search, in the brains of the operator. And we better not think that pushing Kindles into forward positions is going to be any kind of substitute.
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