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2613639 No.2613639 [Reply] [Original]

How does it feel to know that the book culture is dying and being replaced by the New Media culture, and that soon (a generation or so), books will be something archaic, Shakespeare will no longer be read in classes, and the entire culture will change to adapt to this profound switch in technology just at it did when Written Tradition replaced Oral Tradition thousands of years ago?

Personally? I'm excited. Gotta roll with the times, yo.

>> No.2613642

Without books, how will new movies be created, apart from reboots? Therefore, books survive.

>> No.2613649

>>2613642
They'll just be based on New Media instead.

It's already pretty much happening.

See Safety Not Guaranteed, based on a meme.

>> No.2613654

OP, you've misread history. Books were the preserve of a minority until the late nineteenth century. Then, a program of political liberalism and socialism aimed at public education, combined with the decreased cost of publishing, brought literature to the masses. Then capitalism niggered the masses. Now literature belongs to the informed minority again, and print-on-demand means no-one will go bankrupt publishing for a select audience. E-readers are for the niggered pop fic readers. What's happening is not new, just the return to a status quo you never saw in your lifetime. Yeah, once you get over the exclusion, it does feel good. I can tell the kind of person I'm going to get when I talk to a reader now; for many years that wasn't so.

>> No.2613678

Kindle, online publication....you're making it sound like literature as a whole will be disappearing when the paper book goes out of style.

>> No.2613682

>>2613678

Well it probably would, because looking at a screen is a different activity from reading a printed book, but fortunately the printed book isn't going anywhere.

>> No.2613691

>>2613678
It will be. What written tradition did to memory (writing neutered memory of the oral tradition because people opted to write things down rather than work on great feats of memory themselves), New Media will do the same to attention. People will simply not read books anymore, opting instead for blog pieces and the like.

>> No.2613745

>>2613691

No, see >>2613654

>> No.2613765

>>2613745
It's not going to hold. Nobody still recites The Illiad from memory. In a hundred years, nobody will continue to read books as we know them, not even on e-readers. The closest I predict will be some kind of narrative in episodic form, like a "book" that has its chapters "published" once a week in a blog.

>> No.2614658

>>2613639
I don't accept your premise at all. The near future will be like the switch from the quill to the printing press.