Monday, December 14, 2015
The Future of Books
The future of books is very exciting. There are so many different directions that books can go in. On the other hand it does make me a little sad that we are moving away from books in hard copy and more toward technological books. I love the feel of books, I love being able to write my own notes in them, I love how they look on a shelf. I even love the way they smell. I guess books are comforting to me in a way because when I was little, and I was scared or upset, I would always just read a book to make myself feel better. Because of this I know for sure that I will always have actual books, paper and hard back. I just like being around books. I think a lot of people feel the same way. Thats why coffee/book shops are so popular when combined. I also think that there are always going to be people like me. People who wont let go of physical books. I think that eventually though books will probably become a collectors item, or maybe things that are more for decoration, but people will always have books. I think books will go the way of the Vinyl record. People still use them and collect them because it is fun or they like the sound better, but music has mostly just been digitized at this point and it is extremely unlikely that we will ever go back to having physical copies of our music. And thats fine. As long as we still have music, its all good. I feel the same way about books. As long as we still have novels, it does not really matter how they are read. I think really I just mean that it doesn't matter how the words are read, just that they are read and people are still getting the messages and moral that stories give us all. Even though I will always like actual books, the possibilities that electronic books offer are really cool. Like the idea of Hypertext, allowing readers to choose their own stories, character and anything else they want. This also allows people to read their favorite stories over and over again, getting something new out of it every time. Maybe a more desirable ending, maybe a coupling the reader wished could have happened the first time. Really the whole point of this is that I am really excited to see where the future of print goes. I guess not even technically print, but novels.
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One of my biggest fears is that we will turn into a society similar to that portrayed in Wall-E. We will be so centered on our technology that other people don’t even matter. That we would be so centered on technology to see what’s happening around us. We see examples of this obliviousness every day when we walk to class. During that short little walk to class, I can almost guarantee you will see at least five people with their noses in their phones. If you drive to class, scary fact is that you probably see drivers doing the same thing. Technology is a scaring thing. Hopefully we can hold onto older media like records and books to keep us grounded.
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