David Farkas

David Farkas

University of Washington

farkas@u.washington.edu

http://www.uwtc.washington.edu/faculty/farkas.html

What will the "document of the future" look like?

Ÿ	Print to digital media (Web)
Ÿ	Static to cinematic/static Web content
Ÿ	3D and (even) virtual reality will emerge

What will be the new balance between text and other channels of communication?

Ÿ	More use of video, animation, and audio--both to represent reality and to explicate concepts and texts

What will be the consequences of an increasingly "hyperlinked" universe?

Ÿ	Simple "hardwired" links will often prove inadequate
Ÿ	We will have adaptive links that solicit and filter information

How will our concepts of literacy change in coming decades?

Ÿ	Ideally traditional literacy will be supplemented by digital literacy
Ÿ	Risks: less comfort with print and less comfort with any sustained discourse

What will be the role of the professional communicator?

Ÿ	The tradition of crafted documents will endure
Ÿ	But we will see more "meta-writing," in which writers direct machines that find, assemble, and format information