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Re: PR CD images useless now

Doug, you are such a seer!

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From: gardenwriters-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [g*@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Doug Green
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 3:37 PM
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
Subject: Re: [GWL] PR CD images useless now

My dear Kirk - let me simply say that the lack of cd's isn't new.  iMacs
abandoned them a while ago.   What is consumer- new are things like
hand-held 3D printers that print out anything you can draw (even if you're drawing in the air) or printers that use stainless steel instead of ink to
make "things" (as in "replicators")    What is new is building entire
houses on a printer and then assembling them (or garden sheds if you want
to start small).   What is new is.....   LOL    Kirk - what is mind-blowing
new isn't even on the Net yet but is still being kept deep down in secret
labs such as Project X at Google.    I remember the small company that got
bought out when they invented a new way of doing the math for mapping - and that was some 8 years ago now and I'm told it finally appeared online lately. (long story about how I knew about that project)  LOL.

The problem in all this technology is the ultimate movement of technology in society and knowing when to jump or indeed whether to jump.  Little things like do we make images available online - or with a cd or thumbdrive
can drive old-media folks nuts.   (the correct answer in this multiverse of
ours is all of them) LOL

For example - no technology ever dies (and yes, that includes books and
paper)  but it moves from an artistic form to mass media to obsolete to art-form again.  The book and components are perfect examples.  Paper was handmade and expensive - it became mass produced and is once again becoming viable to be made in smaller artisan styles and indeed art forms.  Books were hand-done and expensive but Gutenberg moved them into the mass media spawning entire industries and now the Net has radically changed the way we use books.  Books won't die but will move away from the mass media and back to artisan and art forms.  Some genres are more resistant to this movement  than others but some, like Romance, are moving faster than the norm.

You can make  your own call about what to use as there will always be options.  And arguments such as the 'book is dead" are a waste of time imho.  It's no longer one size fits all but indeed a publishing multiverse of options.

Any new technology takes some 50 years for its true impact to be identified according to theory.  The net is some 30 years old now so we have a few more to go... (bet that warms the cockles of your Luddite heart)  ;-)

Even options such as quill pens for 18th C muses are going to be in use m'friend.  You're still good to go.

Doug





On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Kirk R. Brown <kirk@gardendesigninc.com>wrote:

> As usual, Doug's pointed me into a new and ever more challenging world.
>
> I just get to thinking that my widgets and digits are in synch and BAM!
> There he comes all-powerful in his black box and skewers my 
> self-contentedness.  I don't know why I still try to keep up.  I'm 
> much more content in the 18th century.
>
> But thanks for thinking of all of the rest of us.
>
> Kirk



Doug Green
Who Really Pays Attention To Titles Anyway http://www.douggreensgarden.com/about.html <http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com> https://www.amazon.com/author/douglasgreen
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