In the picture: ah as they were undoubtedly the most rewarding ways to the incunabula of the fifteenth century than to the books today!
- Have you seen the discussion a proposito "libro elettronico" sul blog di ReAnto?
- L'ho vista, l'ho vista, ma sono rimasto in disparte - però tu te la sei presa a cuore!
- Mah, un pochino sì. E' che a me le opinioni preconcette danno sempre fastidio, se poi sono unite a snobismo(anche non indie) mi fan venire la mia solita orticaria.
Questa del libro di carta contro il libro elettronico è una variante della solita mp3 contro cd contro dischi in vinile, ma se possibile è ancora peggio: perchè si svolge completamente in formato elettronico. E' un po' come girare un film che sostiene la superiorità assoluta del teatro sul cinema, oppure scrivere email che sostengono la superiorità assoluta della posta on the traditional mail.
- Ok, but by then the smell of paper weight, the weight of the volume, the beauty and character of the cover?
- More or less, a cock. I've never bought a book to smell or taste the paper pages, but only to read what is written above. It seems to me a thing, as it were, naturally, that should not even be questioned. A paper book is full of crap full of crap. The medium is the message at all.
- On this I disagree with you: there are means to "flatten" the message, distorting, the drugged. We want to take the example of television?
- Even no. This is what television indiesnobismo Luddite, as the rejection of the technology that replaces the bad good books. I do not think that television has lowered the level of education of the masses, I would say the opposite.
But regret is the coolest time before television, when all the free time reading Schopenhauer and listened to Mozart.
The web is a container of democracy and freedom, much more than a newspaper or a book. Why the web, you can participate. More than "where I put the notes in the margins", here for example there is a section of comments, which moreover do not remain only to you, but they are visible to anyone participating in the discussion.
- But not everything is new is good! So we run the risk of throwing away good things also.
- Maybe. But here we are anyway talking about messages, not containers. The original of, say, one of the Dialogues of Plato was probably written on papyrus, then was transcribed on parchment by scribes, was then printed with the various technologies available from time to time, and now you can find without difficulty anywhere.
Well, we do not believe it but words are always the same. The ideas do not change depending on the medium that contains it. So this focus on the container and not on the content, let us urticaria.
- In fact you could say that by being in the field the written word, any technological advance in its reproduction has contributed to further spread of the "book". If only for the increasing decline in the cost of reproduction and therefore the selling price. Unless you want to support that culture was more widespread and more accessible at the time of medieval scribes, or of the aristocrats of Athens.
- Yeah, and who knows how to complain "conservatives" of every age, supporting the parchment as a tactile experience was far below that of the papyrus, or the coldness of the tank than the diabolical machine Gutenberg Hot Gothic script of the scribes Tübingen, and so on.
- True, imagine that risucire have to find people who complain about the new social network "bad" (Twitter, Facebook) that remove public access to "good" blog ...
- And in all this, the best thing is that nobody has mentioned the object of debate with which I began: that the Kindle, which is a next-generation electronic reader, which has virtually nothing to do with the screen computer. But whatever the amount was to support the superiority of the paper.
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"Systems" is self-ironic, eh: the inspiration for the form is Gianni Brera, not Galileo Galilei:)
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