Print Literacy versus Web Literacy

For those of us interested in how technology will affect print reading, the following Web page is interesting. Here is an excerpt:

Print is immensely superior to the Web in terms of speed, type and image quality, and the size of the visible space. These differences are not fundamental. We will eventually get:

• bandwidth fast enough to download a Web page as fast as one can turn the page in a newspaper
• screen resolution sharp enough to render type so crisply that reading speed from screens reaches that of paper
• huge screens the size of a newspaper spread - in fact, I think that newspaper-sized screens are about the limit where it may not make sense to make screens any larger

While computers and print (in this article, the author focuses mainly on newspapers) are certainly different, it is intriguing that the author says computers will become more like print. Here is the link to the article:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990124.html