continuing role of original in context of digital delivery?
“Her attorneys have been engaged in a
battle with the court over documents that list the names and personal information of her clients. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler has restricted access to the documents, but Sibley argued that the order applies to the (paper) originals of the documents, not to (screen) copies. Copies have already been given to a media outlet, he said.”
Where did the meaning come from, where does the new meaning reside?
“Mr. Imus is an old-school radio guy caught in a very modern media paradigm. When he started 30 years ago, if he made the same kind of remark, it would have floated off into the ether ó the Federal Communications Commission, if it received complaints, might have taken notice, but few others. But radio is now visible ó Mr. Imusís show was simulcast on MSNBC, and more to the point, it is downloadable. By Friday, reporters and advocates could click up the remark on the Media Matters for America Web site, and later YouTube, and see a vicious racial insult that delighted him visibly as it rolled off his tongue. The ether now has a memory.”
NYTimes
Mexico City WiFi hotspot
The implementation of
municipal wifi will be a dawning of the portable hand-held reader that has been so long suppressed by silly efforts to mimic the print book. The needed realization is that the hand held device is a book, but a blank book awaiting GPS/GIS live narratives. I have actually noticed cell phones used this way, the user coordinating to visible landmarks and getting live culture feature descriptions. Get ready for the real e-book.
book artist Richard Minsky maps new world
“RM – It will be primarily in-world and web based, with a periodical paper issue that will document the developments in archival form, so that the history of the developing SL art world will not be lost. Electronic media are transient, and ten years from now we donít know if SL will exist, or if it does, in what form. Itís a 3-D world, and currently is rendered in perspective on 2-D screens. In January researchers at the University of Michigan 3D lab made stereo projection of SL a reality, using the GeoWall technology [ http://geowall.geo.lsa.umich.edu/home.html ]. Currently SL is introducing streaming chat. You can put on a regular stereo headset with microphone and the voices of the other avatars will appear to come from where they are in space. When the 3D technology is implemented you will be able to wear VR glasses and be immersed in the environment in both video and audio. Having an archival paper edition of
SLART will insure that in 100 years people will be able to look back and find documentation of the beginnings of all this.”
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introducing the new visual printer
“Gary, There is no post-digital future.”
Well, work with me on this. What I am talking about is a printer with a screen. On that screen you would bring up the “print-preview” environment. A menu would provide previews of the web imposed into traditional as well as post modern print formats (including binding options for traditional books, scrapbooks and calendars). A four color engine and custom paper selection would complete the package. And everyone would already know how to use it.
It could be called a “visual printer”, much like we had in the old days. Or
TabBlog.
Is printing to paper obsolete? To answer that question you must first answer another question; “Is the web a manuscript?” Even
screen publications act like manuscripts before they are printed to paper.
Before the advent of printing, exemplars were circulated for making copies and the exemplars themselves were multiplied so that even though the copy work was accurate, the variation in exemplars induced differences. Word processing mirrors this historical model.
The advent of printing increased exemplars. There was the exemplar used for composition and there were the printed copies which themselves became exemplars. Especially in the earlier periods of print, the print copies parented many subsequent editions and variants. On-line publication somewhat replays this role of print in the early centuries whenever these publications act as exemplars for on-line copies.