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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
of course, if the materials would otherwise be printed on paper, i suppose they couldn't have the attendees in the dark then either.
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Many thanks for the kind words -- I'm starting to really see the benefit of maquettes as I'm getting some furniture designed.
On the light issue, I've seen an ever increasing number of people use laptops in conferences. In part this is because their backlit LCDs work well conference venues even if they are dimly lit, and in part because it allows notes to be taken that are directly accessible on a computer. It would be incredible to have an e-ink device distributed that you could scribble all over, and that (probably when connected to a PC) took the scribbles and converted them to searchable text automatically linked to the relevant paper...
Laptops in a dimly lit conference venue is weird: all those faces lit in a ghostly fashion. And it adds another set of strange distracting noises if the speaker on the laptop isn't turned off. If it isn't a very modern venue it creates a nightmare for the organisers to arrange powerpoints (too many laptops still don't survive a day of use), and the trip hazard is frightening.