Books

• Book creates democracy in a way things before it didn’t
• There is a sense that the book does something different than the scroll

• What will replace the book:
  • Digital ink technology
  • Lightweight
  • Search

• Why books haven’t been replaced yet?
  • Book is stable

• Fetishization of books – original is more valuable
• What makes a book
  • Medium –
    • Paper
  • Library –
    • Validity, stamp of approval
    • Gathers books in one place
    • Disperses
    • Depositories
    • WWW functions like the library
  • Author –
    • Book without an author is not a book
• Wikipedia
  • Author –
    • People can post anonymously
    • A way to track the IPs
  • Medium –
    • Not stable
    • Some gain more power and become accredited authors

• Librocentric – idea that there is a book of the world that you can put everything into and from that understand the world.  Our vision of the internet.
  • Completion
  • Truth
  • Certainty