Sometimes technology isn't about gadgets, the internet, or anything we'd consider 'high tech'. Sometimes it's about simply reimagining: taking something old and turning it into something beautiful and new. [Don't make me go into the Greek etymology of technology; I will if I have to.]
The site I'd like to talk about today involves exactly this kind of technology.
Altered Books, a part of Dan Waber's
logolalia, is an intriguing project that takes pages from books bought at used book sales and turns them into poetry by scratching out all but a few words.
