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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
How so? I am serious. Just what about the delivery as a digital file to be viewed on an e-book reader, or for that matter just a tablet or computer monitor will greatly change how one thinks about literature?
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Before the advent of the digital I thought of books as static. That is no longer the case. In some sense the container, wood pulp/wood oil? does not make any difference into our understanding of literature, but in another sense the container or method of delivery matters quite a bit.
For instance we are able to rapidly consume, alter, and reupload a text for another's consumption. What does this mean when we think about the creator of a text?? Should we even be thinking about a text's creator at this point?
Let's move forward 50 years, strong AI is capable of determining which parts of which digital texts are most enjoyable to homo sapiens and is able to produce literature which many people find to be quite enjoyable.