Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age - Softcover

Levy, David M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559706481 ISBN 13: 9781559706483

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

We are surrounded by documents of all kinds, from receipts to letters, business memos to books, yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as out reading and writing habits are being questioned and transformed by new technologies ad practices. What is the future of the book? Is paper about to disappear? With the Internet and World Wide Web, what will happen to libraries, copyright and education? Starting with a simple deli lunch receipt, SCROLLING FORWARD examines documents of all kinds from the perspectives of culture, history, and technology in order to show how they can work and what they say about us and the values we carry into the new age.

About this title

About the Author

David M. Levy has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University and a diploma in calligraphy and bookbinding from the Roehampton Institute. For more than 15 years, he was a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He lives in Seattle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559706481
• ISBN 13: 9781559706483
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240