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Historic view of the future of media

Ovi Demetrian Jr — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:44:46 +0000

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. The most powerful works for the diffusion of human thought.”

While some people view television and certain things on the Internet such as YouTube as a waste of time, and that people should be reading more, I think Otlet was closer to the truth. New media is not a replacement for the book, but just another form of human thought that has the same relevance as any other form of media.

Democratization of the web

Ovi Demetrian Jr — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:39:58 +0000

How Social Media will change the world

HD-DVD Blu-ray format war

Ovi Demetrian Jr — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:42:55 +0000

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 war” between the new high definition video disc rivals HD-DVD and Blu-ray.

— Blu-ray: Can it Survive? (Projector Central)

True to life

Ovi Demetrian Jr — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:52:14 +0000

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.