Word: speeder
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...know it’s a pain for people on packed shuttle buses with open coffee, but we [prefer] spilled coffee to any pedestrian getting hit by a speeder,” said Elizabeth Randall, Faculty of Arts and Sciences capital project manager...
...African-American speeder wouldn't sit still and be beaten b) $58,000 seemed a little high c) other cops call him "Li'l Sipowicz" d) his gun holster caused hip pain...
Both Gold and Card have this aim in mind, but there the similarities end. Gold is deeply tanned, ponytailed and fast talking, with a background in experimental music and toy design. His group has spent the past couple of years dreaming up utterly outlandish text-display inventions like Speeder Reader. There's the Tilty Table, a vast and thin computer screen on shock absorbers that you tilt in any direction to scroll through a document that would in real life be 30 ft. across; Listen Reader, which uses tiny embedded computer chips to produce different ambient sounds on each page...
...hard not to get a sobering sense of the impending death of traditional, text-based linear narrative. Will generations to come ever know the delights of picking up a good book and reading it from start to finish? Or will they rather skim through it on their tablet PCs, Speeder Reading what the computer has predetermined to be the best bits based on their previous preferences, choosing alternative endings, letting the robot dog finish it for them...
...Xerox PARC may be only the latest step in the book's evolution. The more forms it can mutate into, the more likely it is that one of those forms will survive in an age of intensive information foraging and visual literacy. And if that form happens to be Speeder Reader--well, at least you'll have fun teaching your grandchildren how to do saccadic jumps...