mouse and the billionaire

Friday the 9th of January, two-Thousand and eight // things of interest, things of note, things we like on our leaky boat

old books
From The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst:

- A book is a flexible mirror of the mind and the body. Its overall size and proportions, the color and the texture of the paper, the sound it makes as the pages turn, and the smell of the paper, adhesive and ink, all blend with the size and from and placement of the type to reveal a little about the world in which it was made. if the book appears to be only a paper machine, produced at their own convenience by other machines, only machines will want to read it.

Question: As we continue to move away from the book as the sole mean of entertainment, knowledge, and the written art-forms; and as we move further into the depths of computer interaction, how do we better convey that humanist element?

How do we make work for a machine-based platform that humans (not just machines) will want enjoy?

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