It is the
year 2012 and we must stop and examine the technology that has enveloped our
culture.
We are firmly
placed in the digital age and the ways in which we consume and create art and
literature have become increasingly digital in their nature. We are moving away
from physical objects and towards portable, virtual, computerized versions.
The aim of
this blog is to examine these new media and in particular the electronic book,
to see what arguments we can find for and against them. We begin with the
standpoint of a natural aversion to the replacement of paper books by digital
versions on a computer screen, but we insist on remaining open-minded and
intend to investigate every viewpoint on the subject of this and other
obsolescent media, to either form a complete and cohesive conclusion as to why
the electronic book is a portent of doom, or indeed otherwise.
Below we
shall offer all our thoughts and the fruits of our studies on the subject of
obsolescent physical media.
Written by
Thom Punton BA and Steven Newman M.Phil.
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