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Welcome to the WBZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. Here's a book from

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nineteen ninety four that resonates today.
It's called The Gutenberg Elegies The Fate of

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Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven
Burkertz. In it, and remember this

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is nearly thirty years ago, were
surrounded by technology that can store billions of

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bits of information, leading to people
putting aside actual books and the sense that

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quote, our culture feels impoverished all
because people have turned away from books.

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He proposes, we have to preserve
reading and writing in their current forms again

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thirty years ago. The argument can
be made that every innovation the pen,

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the typewriter, the printing press,
and the electronic digital age has promoted literacy

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and expanded it to more populations.
The author does call himself a bit of

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a curmudgeon, but his arguments are
interesting, particularly when you look at the

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perspective of when the book was written
in an era in which AI is creating

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literature. The Gutenberg Elegies The Fate
of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven

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Burkertz. The Book Club WBZ,
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