Overall I kinda like the idea of having all my stuff accessable wherever whenever I want it. Perhaps thats just me... lol, headphones may not be the best way to listen to music, but moving everything digital does not mean that we have to use them, for example I often use my iPod with my stereo. Another thing, I think the iPod nano is about as small as they are going to go, the shuffle (though selling well) is not as appealing as the nano. Anyway screens can hurt your eyes but I find that good quality bright laptop TFT's arent that bad on the eyes. and I am not getting that wrapped up in if I can do a thing, I think we should move towards multiple forms of getting stuff to people (note I was going to say delivery of content but decided it was too much of a marketing buzz word ;)) meaning we do not have to get rid of books just also offer them in digital forms
well, it's one thing having your life easily accesible on disc or hardrive, but how can a computer convey the smell of old, familiar musty pages that you've flipped through so many times before? The texture of first edition hardcopy leatherbound books? The grainy atmosphere of old, un-remastered 50's black and white movies? The comparason of a record to a cd to a hardrive? It just loses the life of it. having the digital world at your fingertips is one thing, but if you lose everything else along with it... Not to mention the devalueing effect on the economy it would have , because of the amount of pirating and illegal internet activity that would happen. i mean, yeah, if you can make the most elaborate protected digital-economy firewall, someone will break it, and it will just keep going and going before they can even make it illegal (look how long it took them to shut down napstar!)people will be stealing all the digitized info, selling it for less, and less, and less, and the government will freak, the currency (digital or
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anyway I am ont saying we should stop printing books and everything will go digital immidiatly, just saying that is the direction we are heading and it'll be incredibly interesting and if it all works amazingly usefull.
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Overall I kinda like the idea of having all my stuff accessable wherever whenever I want it.
Perhaps thats just me...
lol, headphones may not be the best way to listen to music, but moving everything digital does not mean that we have to use them, for example I often use my iPod with my stereo. Another thing, I think the iPod nano is about as small as they are going to go, the shuffle (though selling well) is not as appealing as the nano.
Anyway screens can hurt your eyes but I find that good quality bright laptop TFT's arent that bad on the eyes.
and I am not getting that wrapped up in if I can do a thing, I think we should move towards multiple forms of getting stuff to people (note I was going to say delivery of content but decided it was too much of a marketing buzz word ;)) meaning we do not have to get rid of books just also offer them in digital forms
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anyway I am ont saying we should stop printing books and everything will go digital immidiatly, just saying that is the direction we are heading and it'll be incredibly interesting and if it all works amazingly usefull.
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