Danny Hillis on the evolution of books and story telling
August 6th, 02008 by Alexander Rose
Danny Hillis has recently published an essay on Edge.org about the future of books and storytelling in general in response the kerfuffle that Clay Shirky stirred up over on the Brittannica blog. Here is an excerpt:
Clay Shirky is not just questioning Tolstoy, he is questioning the culture of literature. He asks, What’s so great about War and Peace? Maybe it does have themes of power, fate, and personal responsibility, but it is really any more enriching than, say, a season of The Wire? And Shirky is not alone in his blasphemy. Back on the Edge, George Dyson speculates, “Perhaps books will end up back where they started, locked away in monasteries (or the depths of Google) and read by a select few”. For a readership of bibliophiles, this is treason.
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Posted on August 6th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Even if books will cease to be the main source of the information, they always остануться a source of pleasure – for those who is able to read. As to Tolstoy and its novel “War and peace” its importance and influence is similar to that. Which Bosch’s pictures have, say, is the whole world collected in one place, пред which, besides, the lens of philosophy is established