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According to Landow, people define going “beyond the book” as entering a fearful state that lies far ahead into the future. Landow, however, claims that we are already there. ... For instance, Landow recalls a conference held at Yale during which Edward Tufte, a famous graphic and information designer, presented his personal leather-bound copy of Euclid. ...
Landow also explains that most college students rarely encounter Tuftes ideal book. ... In this way, Landow explains that students have involuntarily moved beyond the book. Landow explains, “Many of our students, in other words, have already found themselves somewhere beyond the book as a solacing object and cultural paradigm” (WM 216). ... Landow agrees, but then retorts by saying that the electronic medium more than makes up for its comparatively bad resolution “by offering interactivity, adaptability, and ease of obtaining the information required by individual users” (WM 217). ...
We have moved so far beyond the book, Landow claims, that we are now looking at the book as a technology as well and not an intrinsically human object. Landow delivers a sweeping derision of those who fear computers as a writing medium: “Technology, in the lexicon of many humanists, generally means ‘only that technology of which I am frightened.
Approximate Word count = 899
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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