From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 19:48:27 MST
I have gotten an old fashioned paper book published (see sig below). It
ain't literature but it is fun. I am looking forward to many of the new
electronic versions of books. The electronic devices will have to let me
do two things that I like to do with books. One, I like falling asleep in
bed with a book. When I wake up a page might be bent or crumpled but it is
still the same. The book does nothing to wake me up when I fall
asleep. It doesn't beep or anything. Two, I like to be able to throw a
book across the room. I can do this many times with the same book if
needed. When I go to look for the book or clean up the room the book is
still the same. If I did a real good job throwing a few pages may have
gotten loosened but they are all still there and the book still
works. Three I do like the photographic potential in oversized coffee
table books. A good Ansel Adams book will give photographic quality
images. In this area I do not want "about." I want photos that look like
a photo not a very well pixilated version of a photo. As McCluhan pointed
out, a photo can have a line, a computer image or TV image cannot.
It seems to me that nothing will ever beat my old tattered copy of Huck Finn.
Jim R Feliciano
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Printed photos ARE pixilated, just in a different way. Even the best
printed photo reproduction is still composed of dots. Don't take my word
for it, go look at a photo book with a magnifying glass.
Even photographic prints are pixilated in a way, it's just that the pixels
are too fine to see except with high magnification (or in very grainy prints).
It's not inconceivable that digital displays could in the next decade or so
equal or overtake the resolution of film, or at least fine printing like
gravure. Affordable CCDs are almost there.
Dave Palmer
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>But, even a small .gif of the wife and kiddies doesn't fit in the
>wallet.
It will someday. Just on the horizon are thin, transparent computer
displays that can actually be printed rather than manufactured. I can see a
day when individual sheets of paper are replaced by these displays. There
was a depiction of this in the film Minority Report, newspapers had become
thin, flexible displays, and you downloaded the latest news into your
display at a news rack.
Dave Palmer
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