Perceptualized Date
“Humans possess more than one sense,” says Lutz Bornmann of the Max Planck Society in Germany, in his article The Sound of Science, “and there is no biological reason not to use the other ones.” When he puts it that way, it sounds quite reasonable. Much of western culture is geared toward visual representation of data–in images and text–but humans also have a highly evolved and very sophisticated system of auditory processing. Could we not also represent data through sound?