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Nn's avatar

Is this right for Liker Land? understand is this.

A book (say in PDF or ePub format) and the NFT of a book are different.

(1) the PDF is not freely accessible to / downloadable by the public but the NFT is?

(2) in essence the NFT is not storing the entirety of the text of the book, just some metadata about it. This metadata can, for example, be used to detect any subsequent unauthorised alterations to the PDF.

If they right, the only original value added by NFT is stopping people from altering the original text and passing off the modified version as the original.

In its original form, it does not help store the book against catastrophes. So for example, if all PDF copies are destroyed, there is no way to resurrect the PDF from the NFT alone.

Of course, there can be derivative benefits from this feature of NFTs. May be it encourages social changes that are beneficial in many ways.

But shouldn’t we start by asking whether prevention post hoc alterations of PDF is a problem to worry about?

If it isn’t (at least in case of literary novels), wouldn’t it suggest that (a) no problem is actually being solved?

And (b) that pp are unlikely to be attracted to this technology and the derivative benefits wouldn’t follow?

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以前(現在不知還是不是)念 computer science/engineering 的,劈頭第一科就是 C lang,老一輩如我的常戲言「寫 C / 詩」,過了二三十年,AI 似乎真的讓寫作和寫 code 越來越接近了。

關於 skeuomorphic,另一個我聯想到的是 iOS。蘋果從 Mac 起很多年來的 UI 都是仿實物,calendar、calculator、notebook、反正全部都是同一套路。但從 iOS 7 起,Jony Ive 開始不再讓 app 假裝實物,更多善用整個畫面以及手機的特性。

參考蘋果用了那麼多年把群眾養起來才轉過去,NFT 出版應該還需要很多年吧。

https://ckxpress.com/digital-doesnt-mean-virtual-and-isnt-inferior-to-physical/

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