This is priceless.
A forthcoming book on the Future of Text. With a world class contributor list.
Whose webpage doesn't include a responsive text container, nor font-size scaling on mobile: futureoftext.org/2020-vision-bo
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The future of text looks a lot like the history of text: only certain people get to read it.
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It's cool, if you scroll allllll the way to the bottom of the page, where they put the insignificant details like how you might actually be able to buy or read the book... you'll find "the metal edition will be all the pages printed on one sheet of metal, in tiny type"
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> The digital version will be published in open PDF
> some futuristic and useful interactions
In a PDF.
Someone should tell them about the internet, it would blow their minds.
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I can't wait for the future when we're all carrying unreadable sheets of metal around though.
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That sounded like a joke until read it too...
"in tiny type, which we are still experimenting with making as small as possible with currently available technology."
Sounds like an alternative to microfilm storage, but for the permanent archives for 1000+ year storage.
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Exactly the thinking behind it.