Algorithmic Technologies
The final section of the book, "Futures," is more speculative. Explore the outer boundaries of reading. Here the focus shifts from what is being read to the strangest question of who or what is being read.
In the era of automatic reading, it is we who are "read by the minute" by algorithmic technologies.
Likewise, it is underlined how our media have turned the tide: a Kindle reads to us as much as we read it, monitoring our progress and recording our favorite passages.
Even the "artist's books" play an important part with the idea of heat-sensitive pages.
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