The Fate of the Book (and a Question for Sven Birkerts)

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The Fate of the Book (and a Question for Sven Birkerts)
      

Nick Carr is the current smart critic of the new. He is articulate and informed, which is why his worry about the decline of book-thinking gets a hearing. But a decade and a half ago there was another articulate critic of the rising internet who similarly yearned to protect the superior, but endangered book. That critic was Sven Birkerts.

Fast-forward to 2008 and Nick Carr's provocative Atlantic article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" ...
         

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