Paper is the real 'killer app'
I call this the tangibility factor.<p>When I worked at MetaDesign back in the late nineties and early zeros we had something called RedBooks.<p>RedBooks were most of the work we had done for a specific client printed out in tabloid size bound into a spiral back book and put on a large shelf system.<p>We also had a matriculate digital folder system with projects, searchable and the same pages as PDF plus much more accessible from your computer.<p>Guess which one we used the most?<p>With the RedBooks it was very easy to pull out the book and look through it for inspiration, talk about how we did this or that and so on and with the book we only put in the things that where somehow relevant.<p>The computer folders on the other hand had everything because, yeah well why not. But what they had in quantity it lacked in human relatable tangibility.<p>Computers are great when the amount of information become so waste that it&#x27;s impossible to manually search through it all or if you need to share a lot of your things with other people.<p>It turns out that for all the great things computers can help us do it still haven&#x27;t solved tangibility.