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Historic view of the future of media

August 8th, 2008

In 1934, Paul Otlet published the Treaties on Documentation: The Book on the Book where he not only predicts the concept of a computer and the Internet, but more interestingly (to me), he envisions the use of different forms of media.

“These instruments taken as substitute for the book, will in fact become the new book. […]

Democratization of the web

May 10th, 2007

How Social Media will change the world

HD-DVD Blu-ray format war

July 18th, 2006

Now that the Blu-ray has been released, here is a good article that gives us a current outlook on the format war:
They say the outcome of a war is not determined on the battlefield, but rather in the strategy rooms long before the first shot is fired. And so it is with the great “format […]

True to life

November 30th, 2005

Who are true designers and what’s their role in the world? Referencing Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling, Luke Wroblewski of Functioning Form sums it up pretty nicely.