Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age

Levy, David M.

ISBN 10: 1559705531 / ISBN 13: 9781559705530

Published by Arcade Publishing, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559705531
• ISBN 13: 9781559705530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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 our reading and writing habits are being questioned and transformed by new technologies and 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, 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 work and what they say about us and the values we carry into the new age.

About the Author

David M. Levy has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has been a researcher at Xerox's high-tech think-tank, PARC, since 1984. He is also an expert on calligraphy and bookbinding. He lives in Oakland, California.