Ludovico Alessandro Post-Digital Print

         This essay discusses the issue of replacing paper with other materials to have better quality. It also brings out the issue of better quality in terms of reading things. But what Alessandro tries to point out is nothing will replace papers.

Alessandro clarifies the importance if using paper to read things, for example, newspapers are the most common medium people buy to read the news, however, nowadays most people prefer to read the news on their iPods and iPhones. He thinks it might be the end for using handy news papers that people could carry everywhere, in the train, at home, work etc. With the technology of phones the traditional way of reading news could eventually disappears. Another medium that have the chance to replace papers, is radio Alessandro brought up this point that the radio station doubled their schedule to give to news to people so they don’t buy newspapers.

    According to Alessandro’s essay, the “ printed medium seemed simply too slow to allow information to be simultaneously diffused and consumed”.

I think using devices such as iPhone and iPad is more convenient for people to use; they are faster and cheaper to have, and people don’t have to buy a newspaper everyday they can just get updates easily on their phone or even rad the news online. Therefore technology really helped to improve reading, however the paper is still not dead.