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A beginning
Posted Sep 1, 1999
Why participate in this? Because as Douglas Adams says- there is no them, just us. If we want to leave a legacy of intelligent life on earth, we'd better start writing stuff down on this electronic medium. Tree ware should be scanned too. In fact, one day the use of text will be seen as pretty primitive. It will evolve into immersive pictures and sounds that you can navigate and search with the ease of text searching and retrieval (did I say ease?) What a pity the stuff we write in this medium is so darn hard to read. 300 DPI is considered low res by printer standards. Video monitors manage about 90 DPI. That's just making it hard for everyone! Anyway, what is the relevance of DPI if you are forty feet away? Surely there is a better way of measuring resolution - say angles of arc. We might want to read this message on the side of a building one day. How many DPI will we need for that?
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