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In the article, the author discusses the benefits of paper or analogue technology as compared to digital technology. Also cited are how paper showed the limitations of digitalisation, the survey on the value of paper in decision making, the study on how paper can improve productivity by comparing the behaviours of users of paper calendars and digital calendars, and how paper appeals more to customers than digital products.

Reports on companies that are pioneering technologies for electronic paper and have prototypes at various stages of development in fall 2000. Details of the rigid indoor display board called Immedia by E Ink Corporation; History of electronic paper; Invention of Nick Sheridon of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) in California called Gyricon; Research at Kent Displays in Ohio on cholesteric liquid crystals; Outlook.

The article reports that Northwestern University scientist Bartosz Grzybowski claims to have invented a kind of paper that is able to erase things that are written on it. The paper erases written messages by exposure to light, and can be reused without losing its abilities. He created this paper using nanotechnology.

The article reports that researchers at the New University of Lisbon have discovered a way to make paper into a transistor. Details about the research, conducted by professors Elvira Fortunato and Rodrigo Martins, among others, are presented. The important role that transistors play in electronics is also explored.

The article discusses the emergence of paperless offices and explores the attempts of Breedlove & Associates company to make their office paperless. Comments from company founder Stephanie Breedlove regarding her company's paperless efforts are provided. The generational differences of opinion on the usefulness of paper in offices is also explored.

Discusses progress towards the development of electronic paper. Study in which a flexible electronic page made of Mylar that used pentacene as a semiconductor, gold as wiring, and dielectric as an insulator; How this meets the challenge of cheap, flexible electronic components for electronic paper; Role of microcontact printing lithography; Outlook for this technology.

Discusses efforts to develop and implement electronic paper. Research and development efforts by a number of corporations; 1999 announcements of technological developments by Xerox, 3M, E Ink and Lucent; Two different technologies developed and their use of tiny plastic beads or capsules which are black on one side and white on the other; Benefits and drawbacks to both technologies; Uses for the technologies.

Reports that hemp products have made a comeback in Germany. Decision taken by the German government to re-legalize cultivation of some species of hemp; Uses of hemp as damp-resistant paper, clothing and building materials; Popularity of hemp-based products among German environmentalists; Difficulties in processing hemp plants; Ways in which the government plans to check presence of banned substances produced from hemp; Application of ultrasound to process hemp plants; Use of steam pressure by the Institute of Applied Research in Reutlingen, to process hemp plant.