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Old 12-10-2012, 01:49 AM   #1104
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Originally Posted by TechniSol View Post
Heh, heh.

Imagine for a brief moment that instead of the printing press Gutenberg had access to E-ink technology -we'd be "reading" files transmitted into our cybernetic implants by now and complaining how limiting it was to actually have to physically use our fingers to select things when it's so simple to use one's mind to reprogram the interface and use it any way we like.

My inner engineer and techweeny jumps triumphantly into the air and high fives the simulacrum of a ten foot tall basketball center it has conjured for just this occasion.
That point is taken. All I was referring to was the issue of putting titles/authors at the top of pages - something that works effectively. At the moment it feels like someone is trying to move the arrangement of the pedals in a car for no good reason. In terms of being able to modify the information available, and/or how it is presented, I absolutely agree that there is some way to go, and that there are some wheels that need to be reinvented, or at least go from spoked ones with iron tyres to alloy ones with Pirellis ...
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