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From: gls@genesis.ATT.COM (g.l.sicherman)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Banking
Message-ID: <536@genesis.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 May 89 14:11:20 GMT
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In <8408@chinet.chi.il.us>, les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> 
> This may not be so accidental.  It may have something to do with the layout
> and editorial choices for headlines. ...

This is so important that I'm surprised it hasn't been brought up earlier.
By the way, there's a great description of what a newspaper's layout *means*
in _The Mechanical Bride._

> Random clippings would soon be ignored.  What we need is a way for the
> current technique of newspaper layout to be moved to electronic media.

You're barking up the wrong tree.  Newspapers, and indeed all printed
works, are technologically obsolete.  Even if you could preserve
the old techniques, the basic assumptions (standardization, uniformity,
stability, authority) fail miserably with the new technology.  Stop to
think about what it would mean if your neighbor's copy of _Red October,_
the _World Almanac,_ or the New York Times differed significantly from yours.

-:-
	"The goose quill put an end to murder
	   That put an end to talk."
					--Dylan Thomas
-- 
G. L. Sicherman
gls@odyssey.att.COM