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...Subspecies of Harvard student known for aggressive competitive behavior. 2. Frequenter of Cabot Library who goes into fits when organic chemistry text and four-color clicker pen misplaced...
...Reading Period: 1. Two weeks to read a semester's worth of text and write three 30-page papers. 2. When the rest of campus goes skiing...
...epics in full color all dance across this new page. The eternal sheaf becomes both book and TV screen. Indeed the resolution will be fine enough to read words floating in, around and through cinematic images. We see the beginnings of that already on some websites where image and text intermingle. Is this a movie or an essay? We don't know...
...words. And words are not going anywhere; they are one of the most powerful and efficient forms of human communication. A few words--i.e., a few bits--can create religions, can make war or peace. Those words when presented to the eye (vs. the ear) are presented as text. In the past we could render text only by printing it on paper, carving it in stone, writing it with smoke...
Today we can do something new. We can reduce the text to bits (which we cannot see or hear), take this new representation and store it, manipulate it or transmit it, and then later render it on a computer display or a piece of paper. The same is true of music, movies, still photographs. While this is widely recognized, few people have a sense of the quantity of bits needed to achieve one representation vs. another. For example, when you read a book, you consume (if you read as fast as I do) about 3 million bits an hour. When...