Media types: pictured above are the Rosetta Stone (left), a text document; a page from a Gutenberg Bible, a rich text document with illustration; and a front page from the L.A. Times, a rich text document with illustrations, on a tablet PC displayed in the Kent Format, a PDF standard for news delivery.

Allow me to advance the case that the big jump, from a content standpoint, is from Rosetta to Gutenberg. The tablet PC, indeed, all of our monster-power, high-bandwidth-connection PCs basically display the same thing - rich text - that was available in the 15th century. We use a browser, they used paper, but otherwise, the big difference is the potential for speedier delivery.

So, when are we going to take advantage of fast processors and ubiquitous connectivity to present new, more compelling media types? Sure, we're swapping mp3s (quite legally, of course) but what about a new media type where all the pieces - 3D, interactive, video, audio, rich text et al. - are packaged to make something that is greater as a whole than the individual pieces? Stay tuned....
Comments [ ] 11:20:16 PM    

Work, tonight: I had to scramble to yank the Leica out of its bag to snap this as I walked to my car. The gray clouds, the rainbow, the incoming airplane, the flag waving in front of San Jose Civic, the low sun glinting from windows angled just so ... It was a bit more magical standing there... the jet was loud, the rain was pounding down...
Comments [ ] 9:09:16 PM    

Pretty again, tonight, as I left work around 7:00. Shot this photo in RAW format (a 9 MB file) on the Leica... had to DL a Photoshop CS updated Camera RAW (2.1) plugin to read it in Photoshop CS. Curiously, the software Leica offers with the camera doesn't read the RAW format the camera produces (Ouch... for this I paid extra?). Level 3 of the Adobe parking garage has a great view...
Comments [ ] 10:16:26 PM    

Chris Gulker's view from Silicon Valley - in words and pictures