Perspective

While catching up on my magazine reading, I came across an article that made me take a different perspective on my old drawing and writing friend, the pencil. The article was on garphene (http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=carbon-wonderland). It begins by stating the following:

"Consider the humble pencil. It may come as a surprise to learn that the now common writing instrument at one time topped the list of must have, high-tech gadgets." Interesting perspective.