Foreword to the First Edition

I AM PLEASED AND HONORED TO BE INVITED TO WRITE THE FOREWORD to this excellent book. In fact, it is not merely excellent; it may well be the best ever comprehensive overview of computer display technology. If there is a better text on this topic, I have yet to see it.

Display technology is of increasing importance to all of us. We humans are acutely visual beings, and in todays’ world displays are truly ubiquitous. Of course, twenty years ago we would already have said that they were “ubiquitous”, but today they’re even more so – with mobile devices in every pocket, digital displays on every automobile dashboard, laptops and tablets with every student and adult, and large flat panel displays in every home and workplace. ...

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