Comments on: The alien landscape you look at every day http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6036 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Britta http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6036/comment-page-1#comment-12912 Britta Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:18:25 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=6036#comment-12912 I am firmly convinced that paper is much like skin -- those textures of really nice expensive papers, the way people touch and hold paper, the way it looks super up close, the organic-ness, etc. The body indeed! These displays also relate to my favorite Robert Bringhurst quote, one that I like to argue with in my head: "The screen mimics the sky, not the earth. It bombards the eye with light instead of waiting to repay the gift of vision…We look to it for clues and revelations more than wisdom." -- so what happens when you have an e-ink screen that does not emit light the same way as a normal screen! I am firmly convinced that paper is much like skin — those textures of really nice expensive papers, the way people touch and hold paper, the way it looks super up close, the organic-ness, etc. The body indeed!

These displays also relate to my favorite Robert Bringhurst quote, one that I like to argue with in my head: “The screen mimics the sky, not the earth. It bombards the eye with light instead of waiting to repay the gift of vision…We look to it for clues and revelations more than wisdom.” — so what happens when you have an e-ink screen that does not emit light the same way as a normal screen!

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