not resolution
“Where did the pixels go? Not so long ago, you couldn’t look at type on a computer without seeing the ghost of the screen’s pixel grid behind it. But as screen resolutions have improved (thank you, Moore’s Law), pixels have become at once far more plentiful and far less visible. Indeed, the pixel has all but disappeared.” Nicholas Carr
This progression accords well with the FobT premise that screen based reading behaviors are not impaired by resolution, but by immediacies of meaning. Clumsy navigations, loading delays, screen drawing errors and ugly browser defaults are screen delivery factors that impair immediacy of meaning.
rapture
A side bar on the interaction of print and screen reading is the ever increasing processing capacity of computers. Not much doubt of the trends and of the eclipse of the processing power of the brain. Humans could be easy to outsmart but the early stage of the domination of artificial intelligence will need to occur on planet which means the machines will need to outsmart insects, fungi and bacteria. Will smart machines be able to diagnose and treat their own sicknesses? The simple life forms, so well adapted to the planet, will happily colonize the synthetic neural circuitry. And it is unlikely that oxidation and hydrolysis will take a holiday either.
This challenge has already been played out as we attempt to protect libraries from assault by lower life forms. And print and screen data have just marginally been protected from vicissitudes of planetary meteorology. AI can outsmart IQ, but that will be the easy part.
graceful companion
“Books are communicative instruments so vital to civilization that their production must not be consigned wholly to automatic means, whether industrial, technological, or economic; in the process of transmitting culture, they embody it, and therefore need to undergo the vicissitudes of the human condition so that they will reflect our common experience truly.”
Harry Duncan
bath and body
“In true Thymes fashion, the elegant and eye-catching packaging of the Indigenous Collection is as beautiful and unique as the product it houses. Elegant glass holders and containers are adorned with modern, nature-inspired patterns. The packaging of the products has an equally graceful appeal, making Indigenous candles, diffusers and home mists the perfect decorative, functional and sentimental gift for the avid traveller. No need to pack your bags for this aromatic adventure; enjoy as your senses are enlightened and memories are further rekindled!”
The descriptor of “indigenous collections” can be applied to any source materials from which digital surrogates are produced. This extends the leaf master concept of a book retained primarily for making copies. Indigenous identifies any formats of physical library materials known by their screen presentation and sequestered to authenticate those delivery surrogates.