BUT I LOVE BOOKS!

Sven Birkerts,

The Gutenberg Elegies

"You say you want a revolution?

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Does hypertext, like TV, corrupt us?

Arguments about the MTV generation amount to little more that resenting youth for their nice bodies.

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When people complain that hypertext is like TV, they're complaining about Those Kids.

Plato did it too. Augustus passed the original CDA and shut down Ovid's Web site to keep Young People Safe.