I think the idea of doing away with printed media and paper in general is one of the most foolish ideas that have come out of our technology obsessed culture ever.
Books and prints are finished products. They need no "device" in order to read them. 100, 200, 500 years down the road my great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren could pick up the same book I read today and without any further complication read it. Do you think they'll still be able to read the DVD I burned? Well, sure as long as each succeeding generation spent all the money and time necessary to "upgrade" the media each time one was "outmoded." I will cry the day the last newspaper, magazine or book for the common man are published. ~Nick David Wright http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Tim Bray <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:52:38 PM > Subject: Our Book and other book pictures > > Got mine yesterday (Vancouver, Canada). Just like everyone says, > mega-thanks to our guys for doing this. I'm pretty sure there was > some deft sharpening applied to one of mine, for which more thanks. > Would it be totally boorish to pick a favorite? Well, then I won't nod > in the direction of GDG's "Ascent Beginning". > > It dawns on me that although the role of paper is inevitably > diminishing, for this sort of thing it's the only way. Being a > compulsive blogger I wrote a few hundred words on the subject and > included a picture of another beautiful book, and linked to more: > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/02/25/On-Paper > > -Tim > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
