[WEB4LIB] Re: Predictions for the next...

Bob Rasmussen ras at anzio.com
Wed Jan 3 00:59:22 EST 2001


On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Eric Hellman wrote:

> At 10:23 AM -0800 1/1/00, Thomas Dowling wrote:
> >That notwithstanding, display technology will approach the resolution and
> >contrast of readable print, making it more reasonable to ask patrons to view
> >lower-demand documents electronically.  Currently, of course, the bulk of
> >electronic publishing assumes the reader will print the document.
> 
> Not yet.

An interesting development on this: in PC Magazine a while back, they
described some high-end laptops that had (or would have) a significantly
higher dot (pixel) density; that is, more pixels in the same space. This seems
to be targeted at readability.

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