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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Kaufman clearly romanticizes "the book," to the point of attributing reverent status to it. But as he waxes over the wonders of the content, he suggests that that content will be irrevocably and horribly changed by moving it from ink to electrons.
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Uhm... I've got impression that his fear was more specific, that he fears the loss of identity of "The Book" during the transformation. That one Project Gutenberg is sentenced to the irrelevance if it is forced to live in the cacophony of... not so good content that defines "The Net" as we know it.
I am not saying that he is not technophobic. I am arguing that there is more to this Kaufman's piece than bare, naked, technophobia.