Solid media
Information and its carrier. A bunch, the value of which is not always given due importance. What is the statue of David or the picture "Ivan the Terrible kills his son"? Information carrier or information? Why is the original much more valuable than copies? After all, the information is the same, and if the copy is of high quality, then only a professional can distinguish the original from the fake?
Guttenberg’s machine not only deprived thousands of monks of his work. He essentially began the process of devaluing the media. If, prior to the machine, the book was essentially a work of art (genuine leather, precious stones on the cover, unique illustrations, “manual assembly”), now there are almost no artifact books. The so-called "gift editions" - a beautiful, but pale similarity to those books, works of art. Although on the background of tons of outright waste paper, poket-books on bad paper, thrown into the trash after reading, “gift editions” look very good.
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With the intervention of the figures, the copying of information has undergone another revolution. Now you do not need long and tedious to collect galley. The typewriter on which the author made ONE copy of the text and for a long time is now an anachronism. Text printed in a text editor multiplies very quickly. With the advent of the network, the need for a material carrier has disappeared altogether. I bought the last book of Panov on Liters and rocked on palm trees. The whole operation, including launching the keeper and listing seven WMUs, took five to ten minutes. "Solid" book is not needed. There is an ephemeral "electronic copy."
What is the result? With the advent of the network information is finally dematerialized. Paper is not needed, there is a hard disk or some other medium where information is a set of zeros and ones.
But why do people buy printed books and even computer programs on disks? Habit, lack of a wide access channel? Do not know how to use the torrent? May be. But ... but still in the same Wild West, people buy boxes of the game, and do not pull through the network. All kinds of "collection" and limited editions are popular. In a beautiful box they put not only a disk, but also some other “solid media” of information. Why? One explanation is that “Hard Media” creates a sense of ownership. "I have a collector's edition." Let him have a few thousand more, but the feeling that I have something unique makes a person overpay a few standard units for it.
I think that with the passage of time and an increase in the possibilities for disseminating information in the network, another trend will arise - the desire to receive information on a “hard”, tangible medium. Already, there are services that allow the buyer to get the book in the form in which he wants it - binding, font size, paper quality. Who knows, if the original signature of the author for this particular reader will be on this copy - perhaps the value of such a copy will be even greater.
Wait and see.
Guttenberg’s machine not only deprived thousands of monks of his work. He essentially began the process of devaluing the media. If, prior to the machine, the book was essentially a work of art (genuine leather, precious stones on the cover, unique illustrations, “manual assembly”), now there are almost no artifact books. The so-called "gift editions" - a beautiful, but pale similarity to those books, works of art. Although on the background of tons of outright waste paper, poket-books on bad paper, thrown into the trash after reading, “gift editions” look very good.
')
With the intervention of the figures, the copying of information has undergone another revolution. Now you do not need long and tedious to collect galley. The typewriter on which the author made ONE copy of the text and for a long time is now an anachronism. Text printed in a text editor multiplies very quickly. With the advent of the network, the need for a material carrier has disappeared altogether. I bought the last book of Panov on Liters and rocked on palm trees. The whole operation, including launching the keeper and listing seven WMUs, took five to ten minutes. "Solid" book is not needed. There is an ephemeral "electronic copy."
What is the result? With the advent of the network information is finally dematerialized. Paper is not needed, there is a hard disk or some other medium where information is a set of zeros and ones.
But why do people buy printed books and even computer programs on disks? Habit, lack of a wide access channel? Do not know how to use the torrent? May be. But ... but still in the same Wild West, people buy boxes of the game, and do not pull through the network. All kinds of "collection" and limited editions are popular. In a beautiful box they put not only a disk, but also some other “solid media” of information. Why? One explanation is that “Hard Media” creates a sense of ownership. "I have a collector's edition." Let him have a few thousand more, but the feeling that I have something unique makes a person overpay a few standard units for it.
I think that with the passage of time and an increase in the possibilities for disseminating information in the network, another trend will arise - the desire to receive information on a “hard”, tangible medium. Already, there are services that allow the buyer to get the book in the form in which he wants it - binding, font size, paper quality. Who knows, if the original signature of the author for this particular reader will be on this copy - perhaps the value of such a copy will be even greater.
Wait and see.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/26939/
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