Thursday, May 02, 2002

"Are you the kind of person who presses the "door close" button in the lift, to make it go that little bit faster? I certainly am. If you are, you might enjoy James' Gleick's Faster [buy it from Amazon]. | [link] | [email] | [comment] [17] | " [via not.so.soft » life.unfolding] This is the second BloggerPro site today that I haven't been able link to.  Must be something up with the 'perma-link' rendering.  I've manually cut-n-pasted this quick quote from not.so.soft  on Gleick's Faster : The Acceleration of Just About Everything.   10:21:40 PM

""Digital technology used in cameras, cell phones and MP3 players will soon make the written word more accessible to the blind, visually impaired and physically handicapped... Karen A. Keninger of the Iowa Regional Library in Des Moines looks forward to the leap forward, both as a service provider and user. "As a blind person, I'm really excited about it because I'll be able to navigate a book a lot easier," she said."" I like the part about the digital audio player going through the wash...and still working.  Of course, solid state doesn't mean indestructible, but it does underline the dual nature of the technology. The bits can flow as easy as water from source to device.  Here today and gone tommorrow at the click of a button, but having no moving parts there is a persistance to the data that makes the it easily accessible with little or no degradation. 7:58:16 PM

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