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In the Beginning Was the Word
The book, that fusty old technology, seems rigid and passé as we daily consume a diet of information bytes and digital images. The fault, dear reader, lies not in our books but in ourselves.
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Christine Rosen is a senior editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society.
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The Battle of the Books
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