The “Digital Paper Book” project is a three-years-of-investigation-process
about the technology of the book through the ages. At the end,
it became an amazing revelation for me to learn about all the
history that involves the book technology, taking into account
its origins,
the computer era, analyzing the nature of our reading processes
and
looking into the future for unexpected twists.
Back in 1999
there wasn't much information available about the new technologies
that, by the time being, seem to be taken out from a futuristic
story:
movable ink, paper batteries, multi-layers touch pads,
etc.
With
all that technology in mind, I came up with a proposed
device, the Digital Paper Book: a product that combines all
the new technologies
available into a book-like object. It was envisioned
with the sole purpose of continuing the long lasting interaction
between
the
book and
the reader,
the
relationship that has been taken for granted by the computer
era for a long time period.
The questions
that trigger this project were:
can we eliminate the book technology in our culture
with an electronic device? Or can we finally reproduce the book-reader
scenario
with an electronic product? I think that the Digital
Paper
Book
gave me
the answer.
