A Google exec said that electronic books and readers will place book pages so that they can "live in an even more exciting life." [Meaning ads and links] "It's hard to complain about such tools. They are useful. The original genius of the book, as a technology was its profound lack of excitement. On a printed page, there's nothing going on other than words, sentences and paragraphs. The excitement of reading a book lies in our own minds as we get lost in a moving story or wrapped up in a brilliant argument. As lives of books get more exciting, we might discover that our own intellectual lives get a little duller."
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"Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University and an expert on the neuroscience of reading, notes that learning to read deeply is a painstaking process, requiring changes deep in our brains. She worries that the shift from immersive page-based reading to distracted screen-based reading could impede the development of the specialized neural circuits that make richly interpretive reading possible."-compiled by Nicholas Carr in an article about Old Media vs. New Media, in the SF Chronicle Sun June 20, 2010
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"There exists a technology that allows me to explore alternate universes, tread gingerly into unknown, dark places in the forest where no one has stepped before and to return safely. This tool allows me to hear voices of others, not only in current time [?] but in ages past whether it be man or woman and also their dialects, with their deeply expressive tones and moods. It helps me to understand, when I thought myself incapable of understanding. It clears and sorts the path for me. This tool is always with me and sits atop my neck." -je
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