Comments on: In Praise of Folly http://www.tetraktysnovel.com/?p=553 Blog of Ari Juels Mon, 24 May 2010 11:23:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Douglas W. Jones http://www.tetraktysnovel.com/?p=553&cpage=1#comment-26 Douglas W. Jones Fri, 22 May 2009 16:06:08 +0000 http://www.tetraktysnovel.com/?p=553#comment-26 I've written short fiction on a palm pilot and a fair number of my pieces have been published in E-book format. That said, I don't like reading the stuff on display screen, and I genuinely look forward to the upcoming appearance of dead-tree editions of some of my stories. I doubt I'd have read Tetraktys if it hadn't been published on in ink on paper. As Joseph Jacobson of the MIT Media lab said, <blockquote> If books had been invented after the computer, they would have been considered a big breakthrough. Books have several hundred simultaneous paper-thin, flexible displays. They boot instantly. They run on very low power at a very low cost.</blockquote> (quoted from the N. Y. Times, Apr 8, 1988, page B2.) I’ve written short fiction on a palm pilot and a fair number of my pieces have been published in E-book format. That said, I don’t like reading the stuff on display screen, and I genuinely look forward to the upcoming appearance of dead-tree editions of some of my stories. I doubt I’d have read Tetraktys if it hadn’t been published on in ink on paper. As Joseph Jacobson of the MIT Media lab said,

If books had been invented after the computer, they would have been considered a big breakthrough. Books have several hundred simultaneous paper-thin, flexible displays. They boot instantly. They run on very low power at a very low cost.

(quoted from the N. Y. Times, Apr 8, 1988, page B2.)

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