Speaking of a lack of solitude, how would you like to try writing while the contents of your computer's screen are being projected onto a series of very large screens for anyone who passes by to see? Yes, your every hesitation, typo, edit, rewrite, and long period of doing absolutely nothing exposed to the whole world! The horror, the horror!
Monday, January 26, 2009
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Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, well, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College and the author, most recently, of Original Sin: A Cultural History. He keeps an online commonplace book here.
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