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Opening technology's door: perils and possibilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2011

Nicholas Adams
Affiliation:
Art Department (291), Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie NY 12604, USA, [email protected]

Extract

While waiting for class two years ago one of my students looked at the back of the room where two unused slide projectors stood. ‘But’, he wondered out loud – having no history of comparative slide projection – ‘how come you have two of them?’ His remark speaks directly to the rapid change from print to pixel and about the transformation of the lecture room, the place where this change has been most sharply felt: pixels are our daily habit, our night-time curse, and our weekend distraction.

Type
theory
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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