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Fade Theory
embassy vending
Rum-ba-ba typography and Industrial Strength Soda and Snack Vending Machines for All Business! The mechanical Turk still stands in the voids of reality vending
Zines and confections.
degrees of separation
The typewriter interposed between manuscript and print disconnecting typographic distinction. The keyboard type setting machine interposed between the compositor and the type case disconnecting physical characters from text. Word processing disconnected linear composition and diversified reading sequences.
All three transitions repositioning skills of dexterity in techniques of communication. The consequences of these haptical and kinetic changes are immense and invisible. Equally important are cross-format continuities of portability and physical possession of concepts. Churn of the role of copyrights and publishing models reflects the immense and invisible transitions at work.
The phantom of futurist projection here is simple progression between changes and presumptive hard linkage between screen and paper based reading, simple secessionist scenarios for book formats and vertical economic and technologic models for publishing. Among other outcomes can be post-digital repositioning of dexterity in techniques of communication and the role of the keyboard.
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