[paul34 @ Oct 3rd 2007 4:44PM]

My dream has been to have a more advanced e-book reader ... one which can take written notes and annotations just like a pencil/pen, do highlights, etc. It would cost maybe $100-$200, so that every student or individual could own one.

Then, textbooks would be distributed for $5-$15. I think everyone should have access to improving themselves - if they want it.

Lab manuals and such would then be able to be distributed for free, and then campus bookstores wouldn't be able to rip kids off anymore on items like that.

A secure system could be made to allow kids to use "electronic" scantron sheets for small quizzes or classes that utilize the system, thus saving a LOT of expenses in ridiculous bubble-sheet costs.

Paper use would be significantly reduced, students could learn much better (the reader would also have a PHYSICALLY REMOVABLE wi-fi module which would allow for the free sharing of knowledge among students, and also the disabling function ensures no one could ever do an "e-burning" of books by going through and deleting certain "banned" literature).

Anyway, though, my dream of a free society in which education is not shunned or reserved only for those willing to submit to the rather ridiculous financial economics involved in the textbook industry, and where free expression cannot be suppressed.