[flogic]

I once did a thought experiment on what it would take to replace the paper scoring sheets for horse competition. It was fairly daunting. It needs to be simple enough for a lay person to use well. Recording, corrections, and commenting all needed to seamless. Since there are multiple riders on course, the user needs to be able to react quickly and potentially out of order. Paper is really hard to beat in that case. Corrections are just using the pencil eraser or crossing out. Field selection is just where you have the pen at that moment. Communication sucks in that the sheets are picked up by a runner. But even on that count going digital adds it's own complications. I assume that someone will do it eventually but for such a seemingly simple case the constraints are deceptively tight.

[fny]

Why is digital paper not an option here? If we're talking about a timeline of 100 years, I'm almost certain we'll have something thin, reusable, with low power that you can write on with a stylus.

After all, we're almost there today: we're just missing the thin part.[0][1][2]

[0]: http://myboogieboard.com/

[1]: http://remarkable.com

[2]: http://noteslate.com/