The Future of the Book

  • Authors:
  • Umberto Eco;Geoffrey Nunberg

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • The Future of the Book
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

From the Publisher:The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order. These essays suggest that it won't be that simple. The digitization of discourse will not be effected without some wrenching social and cultural dislocations. The contributors to this volume are enthusiastic about the possibilities created by digital technologies, instruments that many of them have played a role in developing and deploying. But they also see the new media raising serious critical issues that force us to reexamine basic notions about rhetoric, reading, and the nature of discourse itself.Author Biography: Geoffrey Nunberg is a research scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and a professor of Linguistics at Stanford University.