Good points, Ricardo!
I wonder when computer advances in the area of adapting them to blind people
(e.g., mouse that is tactile screen - a friend on mine was working on that
invention in Israel) will be come common and widespread. I have heard that
SRI (Stanford Research Institute?) is working on transferring tactile
feelings via Internet so surgeons can do long-distance surgeries (this is
especially important for military since many soldiers die because they can't
get rather trivial medical help in the first hour of being wounded). As to
smell and taste, I try to keep my laptop away from my friend's dog who
obviously thinks about my laptop as tasteful and smelly :-)
Eugene
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ricardo Japiassu [mailto:rjapias@uol.com.br]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 7:41 PM
> To: ematusov@UDel.Edu; xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: first brief remarks on Carol Lee's article
>
>
> " So I'm with Luiz on that issue that paper and web are two different
> media..." Eugene
>
> It came to my mind those books made to childreen that have good smell -
and
> taste! - aside holograms, tri-dimensional forms, iteractive proposals of
> building etc
>
> Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu
> Universidade do Estado da Bahia/Uneb
> http://www.uneb.br
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