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...Hour Workweek, which among other things involves checking e-mail no more than twice a day. Maybe it's worth taking the test: Do our devices really make us more efficient or less so? Do they bind us--or isolate us, becoming screens against intimacy and contact, zoom lenses that let us operate from a safe distance so that we seem closer than we really are? One suspects that trying to cut back may only teach us how attached we've become, at least to our gizmos. Like our children, they are little miracles, whose workings we can't really...
...Harrison Ford sits down on a couch with a glass of liquor and inserts a photograph into a machine that looks like the bastard child of a dishwasher and a used VCR. It’s called an “Esper.” Its purpose? To vividly zoom in on any given portion of a photo, revealing clues to those who seek them. If there’s a metaphor for the experience of watching “Blade Runner,” this scene...
Nevertheless, the bad news is for the fanatics. Sure, one important word gets changed in a climactic scene (I won’t tell you which one), but that’s it. There are no new details to zoom in on. This document is final...
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...rare books and manuscripts, is in the process of digitizing selected pieces from its catalog. Medieval manuscripts and digitized papyri can already be found in striking clarity and vivid color online. The digital images may even show more than the naked eye can see; a viewer can enlarge and zoom in on these images to reveal intricate details that might otherwise go unnoticed by the untrained eye. Some works whose delicacy makes their availability severely limited, like the herbarium of Emily Dickinson, can now be viewed online. William P. Stoneman, a librarian at Houghton Library, has seen many benefits...