If you've ever wished that you could have that old HP scientific calculator, but on your iPhone, your wish has come true.
If you've ever wished that you could have that old HP scientific calculator, but on your iPhone, your wish has come true.
Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, generally, 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 is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University and the author, most recently, of How to Think and The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography. His homepage is here.

Watch video of Alan Jacobs discussing his book in a Washington, D.C. lecture in June 2011.
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