By skipping the ceramic mount portion of the packaging, would it be possible to make computer that have all of the ram, parallel DSPs, and flat display circuitry combined: all manufactured and assembled simultaneously in clean room facilities?
For example, see MicroDisplay (http://www.microdisplay.com/). If these displays could be made the size of a Mead Notebook, with RAM and parallel DSPs all built into the same package, they could replace books, with excellent paper-like resolution.
Adding a flat battery and a radio (like a CDMA PCS cellphone with military GPS - see http://www.qualcomm.com/), with geographically variable spectrum allocation, they could be broadband books.
We could take the entire budget of the US Department of Education, and reallocate it to a manufacturing facility that produces these things.
If we put a MEMS fisheye camera in every pixel, this could also double as a vanity mirror.
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