Irony

Peter Edman

A quick comment here on a situation of high irony. I’ve been tangentially aware of a debate going on between Kevin Kelly and John Updike.

I have sympathies with both sides of this argument on print versus pixels, but I find it seriously ironic that now that we have reached a point where technology via the Web permits us to say what needs to be said regardless of length and without concerns for the costs of printing and distribution, we must access it via technologies that most people seem to find uncomfortable for extended reading.

In the case of our website, I’ve tried to pick colors that are easy on the eye, and I have also created a stylesheet that should allow you to print out any of our articles to your own printer at a convenient type size. Try it out. 

1 Responses (comments are closed) • Gleanings, Science and Technology, Mon 19 Jun 2006