A little over five years’ ago I wrote an essay about a valued possession (check my archives for my published essay of 14 July 2015—title intentionally and temporarily withheld). I ‘read’ (four-letter word) and altered somewhat what follows from an unidentified source so I can’t give proper credit for a very clever treatment of a four-letter word of which too many people increasingly do not avail themselves:
“Introducing the new Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge (BOOK)
BOOK is a revolutionary breakthrough in
technology; no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, no passwords, nothing
to be connected or switched on. It’s so easy to use even a child can operate
it. Compact and portable, it can be accessed
anywhere, yet it is powerful enough to hold as much data as a CD-ROM disc!
Here is how
it works: BOOK is constructed of sequentially numbered sheets of
recyclable paper, each capable of holding thousands of bits of
information. The pages are locked
together with a custom-fit device called a binder, which keeps the sheets in
their correct sequence. Opaque Paper
Technology (OPT) allows manufacturers to use both sides of the sheet, doubling
the information density and cutting costs. Each sheet is scanned optically,
registering information directly into your brain (CPU). A flick of your finger takes you to the next
sheet. BOOK may be taken up at
any time and used merely by simply opening it.
BOOK never crashes or requires
rebooting. The browse feature allows you
to move instantly to any sheet, and move forward or backward as you wish. Many come with an Index feature, which
pinpoints the exact location of any selected information for instant
retrieval. An optional ‘BOOKMARK’
accessory allows you to open BOOK to the exact place you left it in a
previous session, even if the BOOK is closed.
You can also
make personal notes next to BOOK text entries with an optional
programming tool, named ‘Portable Erasable Nib Cryptic Intercommunication
Language Stylus,’ acronym, ‘PENCILS.’
Portable,
durable and affordable, the BOOK is being hailed as the precursor of a
huge entertainment wave. BOOK’S
appeal seems so certain that thousands of content-creators have committed to
the platform and investors are reportedly flocking to the newly discovered
phenomenon.
Technology Rebuttal to Bio-Optic Organized
Knowledge (BOOK)
You should
be warned that regarding the review quoted above, this BOOK technology
has serious shortcomings in user outcomes which, while not apparent from an
immediate usability analysis, seriously impair its market desirability. Research shows that prolonged and repeated
exposure to BOOK technology causes users to become contemplative,
reflective, and, in severe cases, it can induce bouts of concentration
and focused thinking, with common side-effect that include activation of
the imaginative and/or analytical portions of the brain. Such activation of these cerebral regions of
the brain can impede market-critical emoto-cognitive functions like the
impulse-purchase quadrant of the cerebellum.
In one overlooked
period of history, the installed user-base of the BOOK technology spread
with almost pandemic speed. This period,
in BOOKish techno-jargon as the ‘Renaissance’, saw that after the introduction
of BOOK there were unpredictable outbursts of individual and collective
creativity.
