Exactly. Computers as we know them today have their own physicality and neither that nor the sensations involved in reading books bear any direct relationship to the text. I just wonder if the current generation, who are growing up with computers, will feel the same way about them as Warner does about books. Probably not enough to get nostalgic/fogeyish about it until there's a threat of them being replaced by yet another technology.
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Date: 2005-08-11 09:50 pm (UTC)