Whither the Book?

David Reinking
Computers in the Schools, Vol 15 No 1, 1999, p. 101-107

More and more people are turning from printed to digital forms of reading and writing. The people a decade ago who said they would never give up writing first drafts with pencil and paper are often the same people today who say they cannot imagine starting to write even a short letter away from their computer screen. People who resisted using e-mail several years ago are today hardly able to resist checking their messages every time they walk by their computer. Will the conventional printed book too be converted to some analogous electronic form? Put another way, what kind of object will our children put in a time capsule as the icon of literacy for their generation? If not a book, what will it be? More importantly, what role did we play in getting that object there and for what reasons?
 

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