Thursday, December 20, 2007

Future of the book

"We are in the midst of a historic "upload," a frenetic rush to transfer the vast wealth of analog culture to the digital domain.''

सारं काही डिजिटल झाल्यावर पुस्तकाचं काय होणार हा पुस्तकप्रेमींना भेडसावणारा प्रश्न आहे. खरं म्हणजे आपल्या संस्कृतीचं काय होणार ह्या प्रश्नाचाच हा एक उपप्रश्न आहे. ह्या digitalisation मध्ये आपल्या संस्कृतीची बलस्थानं नष्ट होऊ नयेत असं काही जणाना वाटतंय म्हणूनच ही प्रक्रिया डोळसपणे करण्यावर त्यांचा कटाक्ष आहे.

रिअली मॉडर्न लायब्ररी हा असाच एक प्रयत्न आहे. ह्या साईटवर जाऊन त्याची प्रत्यक्ष माहिती करून घ्या. पुढील परिच्छेद वाचल्यावर ह्या प्रकल्पामागील दृष्टिकोन अधिक स्पष्ट होईल

" if it's assumed that form and content are inextricably linked, what happens when we take a book and render it on a dynamic electronic screen rather than bound paper? same question for movies which move from the large theatrical presentation to the intimacy of the personal screen. interestingly the "old" analog forms aren't as singular as they might seem. books are read silently alone or out loud in public; music is played live and listened to on recordings. a recording of a Beethoven symphony on ten 78rpm discs presents quite a different experience than listening to it on an iPod with random access. from this perspective how do we define the essence of a work which needs to be respected and protected in the act of re-presentation? "


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