Cultural past of the digital age (BBC)

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Last weekend I had the enormous privilege of seeing the 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick's film of 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge.
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The 70mm print, with each frame twice as wide as the normal 35mm film usually projected in cinemas, gives a visual clarity that really does have to be seen to be believed, and remains superior to even the highest-resolution digital displays.

But the print of "2001", made for the film's re-release in the eponymous year, is already degrading, as film does. And since it costs £25,000 ($50,000) to make each print it is unlikely that the studio will bother with another when digital projection of a flawless version stored on a hard drive is so much cheaper and simpler.
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I suspect I'm there as the technology evangelist, in the hope that I will speak out for a future of screen-based literature or damn the printed book as a primitive form of information distribution soon to be consigned to the landfill of history.

I fear they will be disappointed, since I love and cherish books in all their many forms and formats, whether literary novels or technical manuals.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6241886.stm