The Future Of Text
from the going-beyond-the-limitations dept
Text may seem pretty straightforward. Afterall, it's just text. But, Newsweek is running a review of a museum exhibit based on work done at Xerox PARC called Experiments in the Future of Reading. It basically shows a number of random technologies that could (possibly) change how people read. Most aren't necessarily practical, but are interesting to think about. At the end of the article, the writer points out that people aren't as comfortable with digital text, and the reason may be that we lose other information when text is digitized. That "lost" info includes things like the size and shape (and even smell) of the material the text is on.
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