Fastphoric:
Reading into the Future

“Fastphoric,” a fiction-based codex book, introduces screen-based reading technologies to the printed format, completing a cycle of transference between print and digital reading methods. By juxtaposing the traditional display of text (which appears in a paragraph format) with two other “faster” methods on each page, the book functions as a hybrid of reading technologies—both present and future. This book promotes discussion of how different reading technologies inform one another, addressing issues of language, technology and reading in the future. The book poses the questions: Will we read print-based mediums differently as a result of technologies designed for screen-based reading? What will happen to the visual display of language and the format of the printed book?

This book is included in the permanent collection of Design and Architecture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.