Welcome to the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Here's a book from nineteen ninety four that resonates today. It's called The Gutenberg Elegies The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven Burkertz. In it, and remember this is nearly thirty years ago, were surrounded by technology that can store billions of bits of information, leading to people putting aside actual books and the sense that quote, our culture feels impoverished all because people have turned away from books.
He proposes, we have to preserve reading and writing in their current forms again thirty years ago. The argument can be made that every innovation the pen, the typewriter, the printing press, and the electronic digital age has promoted literacy and expanded it to more populations. The author does call himself a bit of a curmudgeon, but his arguments are interesting, particularly when you look at the perspective of when the book was written in an era in which AI is creating
literature. The Gutenberg Elegies The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven Burkertz. The Book Club WBZ, Boston's news radio