A fascinating stack of notes with numbers, additions and corrections encountered recently in a very old-school french grocery store. This awfully nice pile of duct-taped paper looks very pre-computing and surely plays more role than calculations: it’s clearly as dashboard for the salesman as he told me he uses it as a reminder for customer credit “emprunts”.
The importance of paper, again.
Why blog this?
The importance of paper has resonated through the work I have been conducting, this I think again only highlights this importance of paper and the activities it supports.
This is useful in the current the thinking of and understanding activity theory in how paper is able to work and function in the environment (ecology of the french grocery store)
Some initial thinking with this is how the initial 'tests' for the information ecology could be in looking at the ways successful tools/artifacts in the information ecology function.
Could suitable analysis of the ecolgoy expose how and why they are successful?
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