Polaroid cameras and film (color and black-and-white) will make a comeback in 2010. The 1948 instant photography invention will be relaunched next year by The Impossible Project and Polapremium. The Huffington Post just ran the news along with a fun feature ranking non-digital objects we miss the most, including pens: "Remember the day writing didn't mean typing? ... Not really!".
In the meantime, Brazilian print newspapers are celebrating a RISE of 12 percent in circulation. Brazil may be the exception that proves the rule (of the demise of print media), as it only recently saw the proliferation of populist and sensationalist free dailies distributed in metro stations and other public spaces. But for a lot of what used to be called "the third world" this may be true: Internet connections are still slow, hardware is still expensive, driving a very very small percentage of the population to produce and consume most of what is "used" online. Plus, is it perverse or even more necessary to think of "digital literacy" in places where a great part of the population is illiterate in general (many Brazilians "sign" their Government-issued I.D.s using their fingerprints because they don't know how to sign their names)? About 15-percent of Brazilians, 20-percent of Hondurans, 30-percent of Egyptians, 40-percent of Indians, 61-percent of Senegalese and 76-percent of Malians are 100-percent illiterate. How to make sense of the need to learn code and the need to learn how to spell one's first name?
Oh, and Miley Cyrus quit Twitter citing excessive self-exposure!
yes it's high time we stopped conflating technoculture with SCREEN... print, books, chemical photography -- all these things are finding new life, largely *because* of the digital (networks, long tail, etc)...
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