Being Nicholas: Nicholas Negroponte is the Most Wired Man We Know (and That’s Saying Something)
The power of the word is extraordinary, and if the word is embodied as text, that, too, is powerful, regardless of whether the text lives as ink on pulp or signal on fiat-panel display. Words aren’t going away, and I think the book/no-book argument is dumb once you realize that all we’re talking about are variations in display technology. I’m not anti-book or anti-print; it’s just that soon we’re going to be doing our “printing” in a different medium.