Two equally excellent pieces that crossed my screen in the last day:
Nick Montfort, “Continuous Paper.”
Ed Ayers and Charles M. Grisham, “Why IT Has Not Paid Off as We Hoped (Yet),” EDUCAUSE Review 38.6.
Posted by mgk at February 26, 2004 01:07 PM | TrackBackMatt,
Nick Montfort's paper "Continous Paper" made me think if there was a marked experiential difference between punch cards and tape. I am thinking about the metaphorics of stacks which harken to storage and the metaphorics of length (running a program). Just wondering if the day to day encouter with media influeces how the "what is" of the machine gets conceived.
On another note: Robert Bringhurst in The Elements of Typographic Style writes "Typewriters came to have upper- and lowercase letters but uppercase numbers alone. And from typewriters have come computer keyboards." (2002, p. 48)
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