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They can't hear me. :-p
The world is changing - and there are so many who go 'Not MY world! MY part of the universe is special, and perfect, and will never not be exactly how I want it to be."
And maybe they are right.
There are always some survivors - some enclaves that remain unchanged despite the winds of technology and society - but I'm not ( Read more... )
The world is changing - and there are so many who go 'Not MY world! MY part of the universe is special, and perfect, and will never not be exactly how I want it to be."
And maybe they are right.
There are always some survivors - some enclaves that remain unchanged despite the winds of technology and society - but I'm not ( Read more... )
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Someone bring up ( links to) some new tech and the ping comes back with 'I like books. Books rule. There will always be books." Wash. RInse. Repeat.
OF COURSE there will always be books. Who said otherwise? New media co-exists and sometimes modifies the old - it does not absolutely replace it.
I have a friend ( well, acquaintance) who makes his living doing HAND CALLIGRAPHY and illumination. He writes books - the old way. Mostly religious works - the same as did the monks of the middle ages. (Bibles, Torahs, whatever is important enough to be worth making it 'art'. Hand binds them, even. So I can say in truth that the 'hand illuminated manuscript' was not erased by the printing press. Does that mean Gutenberg was wasting his time?
Just because we love the old forms ( as he and I love gaul ink and parchment) doesn't mean we can wish the new forms away. Nor, I think, should we.
I plan to love the new forms too.
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