EDITOR'S NOTE

Abstract

Many RBM readers will remember David Levy's plenary talk at the RBMS Preconference in Toronto in 2003, “What a Vacuous Way to Spend So Many Years! Reflections on Materials and Materiality in a Digital Age.” In addition, many will know his excellent book, Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age (Arcade, 2001). Levy's perspective is unusual and compelling because he combines two disparate backgrounds that yield very interesting insights. He is well known as a pioneering research scientist from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, but before PARC, and just after finishing a PhD at Stanford, he . . .