It might be more that preservation benefits from "replication and retention" in any form. Digital vs paper is kind of an orthogonal axis! worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlex...
The Web of Alexandria (follow-up)
worrydream.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It might be more that preservation benefits from "replication and retention" in any form. Digital vs paper is kind of an orthogonal axis! worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlex...
Sherry Turkle's book "Simulation and its Discontents" is a good longitudinal study of what changed (good and bad) as several professions adopted faith-based computing.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254679...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254679...
December 29, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Sherry Turkle's book "Simulation and its Discontents" is a good longitudinal study of what changed (good and bad) as several professions adopted faith-based computing.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254679...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254679...
It's easy to mock that article, but for most people who don't habitually decap their chips, computers are indeed unknowably-complex black boxes that must be taken on faith, and for a generation who grew up with transparent, fully-understandable tools, that was a great loss. I'm very sympathetic.
December 29, 2024 at 10:49 PM
It's easy to mock that article, but for most people who don't habitually decap their chips, computers are indeed unknowably-complex black boxes that must be taken on faith, and for a generation who grew up with transparent, fully-understandable tools, that was a great loss. I'm very sympathetic.
Nice ones can be reused for projects. We made a board game for a friend's wedding, packaged in a former iPad box.
December 20, 2024 at 6:24 AM
Nice ones can be reused for projects. We made a board game for a friend's wedding, packaged in a former iPad box.
Toby had started on a 2D version of a similar idea, a while back. Sketch a CAD drawing on paper, draw constraint annotations, it reprints the drawing with constraints applied, repeat. dynamicland.org/archive/2015...
Dynamic drafting paper - Dynamicland archive
dynamicland.org
December 18, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Toby had started on a 2D version of a similar idea, a while back. Sketch a CAD drawing on paper, draw constraint annotations, it reprints the drawing with constraints applied, repeat. dynamicland.org/archive/2015...
succession of responses:
1. "Why can't you just edit the editor?"
2. "Maybe that's an obnoxious response."
3. "But isn't that what's actually ludicrous about this situation?"
4. "Especially because, when *I* edit the editor, I'm editing *your* editor."
1. "Why can't you just edit the editor?"
2. "Maybe that's an obnoxious response."
3. "But isn't that what's actually ludicrous about this situation?"
4. "Especially because, when *I* edit the editor, I'm editing *your* editor."
December 14, 2024 at 2:49 AM
succession of responses:
1. "Why can't you just edit the editor?"
2. "Maybe that's an obnoxious response."
3. "But isn't that what's actually ludicrous about this situation?"
4. "Especially because, when *I* edit the editor, I'm editing *your* editor."
1. "Why can't you just edit the editor?"
2. "Maybe that's an obnoxious response."
3. "But isn't that what's actually ludicrous about this situation?"
4. "Especially because, when *I* edit the editor, I'm editing *your* editor."
