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34 David Dix, “Virtual Chiat,” Wired, 2.07, July 1994, www.wired.com/wired/
archive/2.07/chiat.html
35 Warren Berger, “Lost in Space,” Wired, 7.02, February 1999,
www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.02/chiat_pr.html
36 Lisa Genasci, “Have Laptop, Will Travel: The New Nomad Life of the White Collar
Worker,” The Associated Press, March 8, 1994.
37 Berger.
38 Dard Hunter, <strong>Paper</strong>making: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft (London: The
Cresset Press, 1957), pp. 48-63. In 2006, archaeologists in northwestern China reported
finding a piece of Chinese writing paper from the year 8 B.C., or more than 100 years before
the date of Cai Lun’s “discovery.” Thus, the true inventor is apparently unknown.
39 Hunter, pp. 48-63. Also Sukey Hughes, Washi: The World of Japanese <strong>Paper</strong> (New York:
Kodansha International/USA, Ltd., 1978), pp. 39-40.
40 Hunter, pp. 48-63.
41 Carmen Crespo and Vicente Viñas, “The Preservation and Restoration of <strong>Paper</strong> Records
and Books: A RAMP Study with Guidelines,” (Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization, 1985; translated from the Spanish original), footnote, p. 3; The
Missal of Silos is also cited as the oldest Western paper document in more recent sources
including Norris McWhirter, Norris McWhirter’s Book of Historical Records (New York: Sterling
Publishing Company, Inc., 2000), p. 218.
42 Hunter, p. 470.
43 Harold A. Innis, Empire and Communications, (Oxford University Press, 1950, ; rev. by Mary
G. Innis, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972), pp. 128-129 (page citations are to the
revised edition).
44 Hunter, pp. 60-61.
45 Hunter, p. 473; also Innis, p. 129.
46 Peter Stallybrass, Michael Mendle, Heather Wolfe, brochure for “Technologies in the Age
of Print,” exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, September 28, 2006 –
February 17, 2007.
47 Ibid.
48 Ibid.
49 Stallybrass, Mendle and Wolfe, texts accompanying exhibited materials, “Technologies in
the Age of Print.”
50 Ibid.
51 Ibid.
52 For an excellent discussion of writing tables and their uses, both in Hamlet and in
Shakespeare’s time generally, see Peter Stallybrass, Roger Chartier, J. Franklin Mowrey and
Heather Wolfe, “Hamlet’s Tables and the Technologies of Writing in Renaissance England,”
Shakespeare Quarterly, 55 (4): pp. 379-419.
53 William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in The Norton Shakespeare,
general ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997), Tragedies, p.
314.
54 Paul Saffo, “The Electronic Piñata,” www.saffo.com/essays/epinata.php, originally
published c. October 1992.
55 William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking The Way We Make
Things (New York: North Point Press, 2002), p. 5.
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