William Powers, Hamlets Blackberry p. 61 ISBN:9780061687174 ————————————————- Though digital tools are designed to make the workplace more efficient and workers more productive, the effect is often the opposite. And still businesses and other institutions continue down a slippery slope continually increasing the investment and engagement with the digital age. Jen Sorensen an observer of [...]
The book has many practical advantages: compactness, sturdiness, portability, random access, ease of reference, economical, self-contained versatility of use. As medium for information it has transmitted vast amounts of knowledge over the last 500 years, in all cultures, without a power source. Beyond these attributes the book, as an object, embodies knowledge developed a thousand [...]
This morning I helped set up a book fair at a local elementary school and had the chance to speak for a few minutes with a friend I hadn’t seen in a while. After some idle chit-chat I asked how her craft business was doing. She told me that sales on Ebay were flat, but [...]
