Re: Digital Textbook Hardware and Software Capabilities and Feature Sets

If you are interested in Philosophical issues printing, and the web you may want to listen
to Bernard Stiegler's WWW2012 keynote "Die Aufklärung, in the age of philosophical 
engineering"

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRNjImtIA0M

Which you can read here:
http://www2012.org/documents/Stiegler-www2012-keynote.pdf

Perhaps then you can search for a more directly philosophical set of questions that this
list may be a good place to leave some thoughts in. 


On 26 Dec 2012, at 17:15, Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Web Philosophy Community Group,
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> It is my opinion that there should be a versioning hardware features description, capabilities description, feature set description, abstractly, for digital textbook hardware in American public schools (for example resembling DirectX or OpenGL) which describe software and hardware features and capabilities to software developers.

It may be your opinion, but I don't think this list will be a good place for finding people who will be able to help you on technical standards issues. This list is more about philosophical issues as they impact the web.

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> It is my opinion that digital textbook hardware should have 3D graphics capabilities by the 2015 - 2016 schoolyear.

Why would anyone be interested in your opinion?

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> The digital books industry wants to, in theory, maximize the sales of digital books to as wide a number of digital book reading hardware and software as possible. On the digital textbook topic, however, there exist scientists, technologists, and educators who want to have minimum feature sets described by the 2015 - 2016 schoolyear, for example with regard to multimedia and 3D graphics. Beyond the rendering of interactive 3D graphics, 3D graphics cards are increasingly utilized when rendering other components of modern digital documents.

Every industry has to be theoretically be concerned about sales. Why would the outcome of that be for the good necessarily? 

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> We can consider and discuss processes by which to have precise and versioning industry standards, hardware capabilities and features sets, for digital textbook hardware and software; minimal feature sets to clarify for digital textbook authoring teams the features that digital textbook hardware and reading software are expected to have by the 2015 - 2016 schoolyear and each subsequent schoolyear.

Who is the "we" you are speaking for? Why do you think you'll find such a "we" on a philosophy mailing list?
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> Kind regards,
> 
> Adam Sobieski

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