Cover of Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age

Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age

Like Henry Petroski's The Pencil, Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us—our work, our values, our relationships—both in the past and as we move into the digital age.

Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 212 pages

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