Paper Bits

Sep 16

blech:

Color Chart (1920) by Eric Fischer on Flickr.From “Color,” The World Book, 1920.

Color Chart (1920) by Eric Fischer on Flickr.
From “Color,” The World Book, 1920.

Jun 12

quartey:

Agreed. Imagine this applied to airline boarding passes, so that your boarding pass updates if your departure date or time changes - no more running across the airport because you didn’t hear the announcement in time.

Or how about price stickers in shops? You wouldn’t need to walk around with a price gun, updating prices every week.

These things are all true, and excellent business cases for an innovative technology.

But really? I just want to search and summon my online library of cards out onto my desk where they used to live, at will.

I’ve wanted that since 2005. It’s insanely frustrating that, six years later, we still don’t have all the pieces to make it work.

Agreed. Imagine this applied to airline boarding passes, so that your boarding pass updates if your departure date or time changes - no more running across the airport because you didn’t hear the announcement in time.

Or how about price stickers in shops? You wouldn’t need to walk around with a price gun, updating prices every week.

These things are all true, and excellent business cases for an innovative technology.

But really? I just want to search and summon my online library of cards out onto my desk where they used to live, at will.

I’ve wanted that since 2005. It’s insanely frustrating that, six years later, we still don’t have all the pieces to make it work.