Audiences perceive physical books as definitive culminations, unlike digital artifacts
Ali Almossawi · #38 Ali Almossawi: Thinking in Algorithms · Aug 8, 2018 · at 3:13
Author Ali Almossawi compares the audience expectations of open-source digital projects against printed physical books.
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“Crucially, there is it's, the artifact is always a work in progress. Whereas I came to learn that with a book there is this perception that a book is the culmination of you know, of an effort, and maybe rightfully so for historical reasons.”
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