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The Gutenberg elegies: the fate of reading in an electronic age
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Discussing in personal and cultural terms the values of reading, and examining what may be lost as society turns towards CD-ROM, hypertext and audio books, the critic Sven Birkerts, whose essays and reviews have appeared in New York Times Book Review, Atlantic and Harper's, offers a defence of the place of reading and the printed word in the face of rapid technological advances. He argues that we are living in a state of intellectual emergency - an emergency caused by our willingness to embrace new technologies at the expense of the printed word. As we rush to get on-line, as we make the transition from book to screen, we are turning against some of the core premises of humanization. The printed page and the circuit-driven information technologies are not related - for Birkerts they represent fundamentally opposed forces, and in their inevitable confrontation our deepest values will be tested.
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- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1995-04-01
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 08
- Pages
- 32-4320-32-4320
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
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- W1506353784
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- 840
- References
- 0
- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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