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You know, I agreed with you (and even upvoted you) but as I think about it I think you might be wrong. I think the meta point to the article is that our entire
by SamAtt 17y ago
You know, I agreed with you (and even upvoted you) but as I think about it I think you might be wrong. I think the meta point to the article is that our entire idea of what the written word should be is about to change now that the last vestiges of print are reaching the end of their life.
In other words you don't see pagination going away because it's part of our mental model of what a document should be like. I think the article is saying that mental model itself is becoming obsolete and we won't have documents as much as we'll have formless information. That's not going to happen overnight (and the article points out there will probably be a hybrid period where print exists beside electronic). But eventually I think it's probably inevitable.
- protomyth 17y agoI get the feeling "pages" will be around for a while because we currently use them as a deep link into the material. When a new model for documents emerges, we will still need that index/deep link for citations (I don't think a keyword search with the book title will do for academics).
- mortenjorck 17y agoI agree with you as well. I think we're basically saying the same thing; I'm saying the paginated model will stay with us until a new technology-enabled successor takes root. Our expectations of document structure will certainly play a role in pagination's tenacity even after that successor arrives, but I don't think pagination will be our permanent future.