As part of the multi-million Euro "Notebook University Project" in Germany, we investigate new ways in which students access instructional material and how they inter- act with it. The ultimate goal is to better support the cogni- tive process of turning the abundance of explicit knowl- edge into useful implicit (tactile) knowledge. We argue that carrying explicit information around, e.g. in form of a notebook, is an obsolete approach in the age of network- ing. We suggest, as large size displays and input devices become freely available in many locations on and off cam- pus, it is sufficient to connect to them via a remote control which could be a PDA or a mobile phone (which in the future will be one and the same anyway). This paper illus- trates some of the architectural requirements, identifies desirable interaction conventions and proposes suitable changes to our educational practices.