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I couldn’t agree more as well. Survival of print can only be attributed to any exclusive attributes of print in the context of screen presentation. Unfortunately such exclusive attributes boil down to only three; legibility (not resolution but immediacy of meaning), haptic efficiency (conveying concepts with physical objects) and persistance (default preservation and reaccess).
Will such attributes assure print survival? No, because the screen based reader is no longer independently self interfacing or even assuredly bionic.
futurist scenario
Today rail passenger service was revived in the Cedar Rapids to Iowa City corridor. The old interburban service died out in the 1950's due to the increasing use of cars. Now the same service is being restored due to the same reason.
What happened is that continuing change produced recursive complementary change and old solutions proved to be new solutions. The paper book is a product of digital text and screen reading.
old fonts
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echoes of the future of print.
incubation niche
"Morrisville, NC — Italian author Robert Bernocco has amazed the literary world by publishing the world’s first book written using a mobile phone. Bernocco published it on
Lulu.com, the online marketplace for digital content."(from)
print-on-demand
The cell phone is a hand-held reading device. It is also a hand-held writing instrument. It is also, with GPS/GIS and internet connectivity, a place-based learning medium. Only the portable book is precursive to such extensive communication actions.
The key is personal expression and individual, in the pocket connectivity to conceptual exchange; a medieval girdle book, a personal book of hours, an amulet codex in telescopic mahdar.
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