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solarpsychedelicIt isn’t only that we shifted from a print to digital culture. Reading is still reading regardless of actual physical device used to access the information.
No, it’s the shift from a print to a visual culture that changed us to our detriment.
A culture that is based on print and values literacy is usually more educated or at least more thoughtful.
A culture based on visual images at the expense of literacy, though, well, that’s part of worshipping a golden calf without understanding there’s only a coat of cheap paint on that calf.
I think The Book has some words about that, if people bother to read anymore.
No, it’s the shift from a print to a visual culture that changed us to our detriment.
A culture that is based on print and values literacy is usually more educated or at least more thoughtful.
A culture based on visual images at the expense of literacy, though, well, that’s part of worshipping a golden calf without understanding there’s only a coat of cheap paint on that calf.
I think The Book has some words about that, if people bother to read anymore.