Books,novels, stories, articles, music, art, and pretty much anything you can think of can we found on the web. Is this a good thing? In many senses yes, but in some cases no. Some people choose the easy way through …

“The Library of Alexandria was begun in the 4^th century BC and became the largest library in the ancient Greek world, a centre–and symbol–of learning and scholarship. Its accidental destruction by Julius Caesar in 48 BC may not be …

Note: I had written and revised this whole post, and when I went to publish it, it reverted to an earlier form and I lost everything I had typed up since. Does anyone know why this would happen or how …

“The Library of Babel,” by Jorge Luis Borges, explores the concept of a universal library, containing every text that could possibly be written in every possible language. One thing that stands out from Borges’ text is the fact that the …

Taking from the information in the articles, the main problem with the Google Books project is that it fails to establish and maintain copyright with a majority of the authors whose works it will be using. Granted, the problem with …

One of the ways I thought cyborgs could have an impact is with issues of identity. In “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” Donna Harraway seems to talk about gender identity as it pertains to women. She seems to point out an …

Once something is written, it travels through the world with the help of internet and many publication firms to various people, libraries, and bookstores. With the exposure of the amount of information on the internet, people can now easily decide …

We have always been a society that reads. Reading serves so many purposes such as
entertainment, to understand a concept, get information etc. Digital technology
has definitely changed our society’s experience of reading. It has changed our
experience by going …

I feel like the biggest question the professor is asking us is definitely the first one:  How do you think digital technology has transformed our society’s experience of reading and writing?

Just the other day, I was watching TV and …

This week’s class material gave me food for thought. As the article “Will the Book Survive Generation Text,” asks: “…are we worse for not having archived the ephemera of mankind, for having devoted libraries and syllabi to books-the weightiest, most …