MPR: Living in a digital space
John Moe talking to Paul Saffo and me from ~02:45 to ~25:00
The wave of digitization is coming as compact discs are tossed out in exchange for iPods, and the Kindle promises to make books obsolete. Midmorning asks what is the role of hard media in our lives, and what will we lose by moving from analog to digital format in our living spaces?
Finally. A chance for me to make a lame Greek Philosophy joke. That public school education just keeps paying for itself, doesn’t it?
Worth a listen.
Of course they get the one crazy caller who thinks we were much better off with only card catalogs because of their random association of subjects with alphabetical listings. I do understand his point, although I prefer browsing physical shelves of books to flipping through cards. Just the other day I happened across literature of sex and orgasms in the eighteenth century looking for Paul Collier’s new book. Who can’t appreciate that?
But c’mon. Looking through my browser history gives me great concern for my sanity.
