On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Andrew Sly wrote:
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, James Adcock wrote:
And reading through the peephole of a cellphone makes as much sense to me as distributing PG texts one line at a time via fortune cookies.
Nice simile. Thanks--made my night.
--Andrew
I thought so, too, at least for many people, until I saw a 73 year old lady read on one-- and commenting how easy it was. . . . Personally, I thought this would be a larger generation gap situation until then, but now it seems more likely that some people are in some ways just closed minded. Of course, there ARE people for whom reading in any "normal" format is very difficult and we should not belittle them. However, with automatic scrolling, etc., the whole "fortune cookie" idea dissolves into a "Diamand Age" "media glyph" that Hackworth's career was based on. It's hard to argue that people don't read on cellphones, since they do it all the time in greater and greater numbers, to read greater and greater amounts. You might as well fight against Twitter, and all the rest.