Today we travel to a fully digital world, a world where paper is a thing of the past.
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In this episode we talk about how likely it is that we might get rid of paper (not very) and what might happen to our reading habits, memories, and environment if we do.
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The MIT Media Lab’s “Flying Pantograph” is a pen-wielding tele-robot controlled by a drawing interface. From MIT’s Fluid Interfaces research group: A drone becomes an “expression agent” – modified to carry a pen and be controlled by human motions, then carries out the actual process of drawing on a vertical wall. Not only mechanically extending […]
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