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Written by Cranbury on 10-06-2007 12:23 - Registered
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sea change
I agree with this article in many ways but perhaps there's a lack of generational emphasis in it. To my mind.
No one will mistake Alberto Manguel for that guy cruising the games aisle at Future Shop searching for a game like Hotel Dusk for his Nintendo DS - a handheld video game console. Not for his child but for himself. Hotel Dusk being a interactive adventure game based on a standard noir narrative. My vaguely articulated point is that 'literacy' or the future of the book or whatever you want to call it is not dependent solely upon pixillated text displayed on a palmsized thingy. It will very likely be an interactive, generative combination of text and image in concert with other readers/users around the world who are tuned in to the same 'book'. This is not something that my generation or Mr Manguel's generation will decide, however. I believe that the book will survive and be a useful part of everyday life for a few more generations at least. Though the way that we create and interact with fictional stories or non-fiction will certainly change as we push technology futher. Steven Johnson puts forward an interesting argument for this transition in his book 'Everything Bad is Good for You'. |
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