A Brief History of Internet and the Death of Writing

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Hours:	5:30 p.m.
Ages:	Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	Free
Category:	Lectures/Discussions

In the age of Google, blogging, and the e-book, many fear that reading and writing are swiftly passing away. We fear more than the disappearance of pen and paper per se; it's the loss of cherished practices and long-established mental reflexes that disturbs and confounds.

Twitter, the telephone, the penny dreadful, even the printing press itself—each in turn has been seen as an agent of decadence and cultural death, as the harbinger of the turn from civilization to barbarism

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