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French modernists were alarmed, inspired by newspaper's voracious dynamism
How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world
In Shteyngart’s techtopian allegory, Super Sad True Love Story(2010), and in Lockwood’s portrait of internet addiction, No One Is Talking About This(2021), redemption can be achieved only offline – respectively by reading ‘bound, printed, nonstreaming Media artifact[s]’ and by taking responsibility for the suffering of others. And yet, throughout the internet era, innovation has been a one-way street that runs from page to screen, transforming information from analogue into digital form and thereby sacrificing the advantages of the codex – durability, beauty, flexibility, enhanced concentration – for the sake of convenience and miniaturisation. In the mid-2000s, the Greek engineer Manolis Kelaidis developed prototypes of a networked book – originally called the blueBook – that use conductive ink to create hyperlinks allowing users to access digital content on other devices by touching the pages.Advances in printed electronics have since expanded the concept’s technical possibilities.
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