Your comment made me imagine a "card" catalog where each card is some kind of wireless transparent display or e-ink screen. It would provide a tacticle, physical representation of data that one could flip through to navigate the information space. It would be costly, and probably not practical or useful at all, haha.
Speaking of card catalogs, every time this topic comes up, it reminds me of a book I really enjoyed about index cards.
> Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.
Speaking of card catalogs, every time this topic comes up, it reminds me of a book I really enjoyed about index cards.
> Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.
Paper Machines: About Cards and Catalogs, 1548-1929 - https://web.archive.org/web/20220531211447/https://mitpress....