We are surrounded by documents of all kinds, from receipts to letters, business memos to books, yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as out reading and writing habits are being questioned and transformed by new technologies ad practices. What is the future of the book? Is paper about to disappear? With the Internet and World Wide Web, what will happen to libraries, copyright and education? Starting with a simple deli lunch receipt, SCROLLING FORWARD examines documents of all kinds from the perspectives of culture, history, and technology in order to show how they can work and what they say about us and the values we carry into the new age.
- ISBN10 1322571279
- ISBN13 9781322571270
- Publish Date 1 January 2012 (first published 7 November 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Arcade Publishing
- Format eBook
- Language English