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Agreed. I had a collection Brittanica back in the day and I remember randomly perusing through it and finding interesting tidbits of information I would otherwi
by akg 15y ago
Agreed. I had a collection Brittanica back in the day and I remember randomly perusing through it and finding interesting tidbits of information I would otherwise be ignorant of. What a resource it was. That experience is not found by today's technology, yet. Wikipedia has a "random article" link, but it's not the same as flipping through a Book and stopping when you see interesting key-words/pictures.
Maybe there is an iPad app in here somewhere that mimics this behavior ;-)
- nsomaru 15y agoHah! That's giving Job's API's too much credit :) The feeling of pages ruffling past your thumb as the words flew past you at lightning speed, the slight upward draught created by the screaming pages...and suddenly stop thud stillness -- not knowing whether it was a word or a colour or a picture that caught your attention, but here you were, another page, but a whole new world to discover. The whole process almost imitates the way your mind moves -- fast movement between subjects...and still contemplation within them. Contrast that with the "tap" or "swipe" on an iPad or the "click" of a mouse and it all just seems a little...bland. This got me thinking about API's and the limitations of hardware in providing experiences, and then I realised that the ultimate consumer computing device would be some kind of "possibility field" that could morph into whatever was required by the user. The hardware itself would be an API called by the user's interactions...ah one can dream, right? :)