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The Gutenberg Elegies : Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, Paperback / softback Book

The Gutenberg Elegies : Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age Paperback / softback

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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 "The New York Times Book Review", "The 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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