Notes on life, art, photography and technology, by a Danish dropout bohemian.
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Monday, April 05, 2010
New times
[Thanks to Dave]
Good fun.
I wonder how many years it will actually take before reading on a hand-held screen will be more common than reading on paper? I'd say 12-15.
5 comments:
addingwhitenoise
said...
While you fret over the arrival of your iPad:
iPademonium http://tr.im/UBD3
Often a column so simplistic that its a skim and delete, the new product seems to have inspired them to greater heights of creativity: perhaps this will be the characteristic phenomenon of iPademonium.
The technology will have to improve by a huge margin - say, the difference between a 3D movie and the Holodeck on Star Trek - before that will happen. It's just not that great reading on a screen, whether it's a desktop, a laptop, a Kindle, or a ipad. So, you may be right, but we'll see. But not a dinner in your neck of the woods. If I'm right, it's a dinner at the best restaurant in Paris. Tell you what, if you're right rather than by you dinner, I'll still get the dinner - in Germany. Blood sausage, the works. Talk about humble pie. :)
5 comments:
While you fret over the arrival of your iPad:
iPademonium
http://tr.im/UBD3
Often a column so simplistic that its a skim and delete, the new product seems to have inspired them to greater heights of creativity: perhaps this will be the characteristic phenomenon of iPademonium.
I wonder how many years it will actually take before reading on a hand-held screen will be more common than reading on paper? I'd say 12-15.
I'd say never.
You're on, Dave, I'll bet you dinner in the best restaurant in town that by 2030 it's happened.
The technology will have to improve by a huge margin - say, the difference between a 3D movie and the Holodeck on Star Trek - before that will happen. It's just not that great reading on a screen, whether it's a desktop, a laptop, a Kindle, or a ipad. So, you may be right, but we'll see. But not a dinner in your neck of the woods. If I'm right, it's a dinner at the best restaurant in Paris. Tell you what, if you're right rather than by you dinner, I'll still get the dinner - in Germany. Blood sausage, the works. Talk about humble pie. :)
"buy you dinner" I mean.
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