From the title, one might not
expect to find a book about modern technology but this text manages to successfully
marry the literary world with the technical world. Broadening the definition of
literacy to include many technological innovations, Mihai Nadin presents an
analysis that covers the historical definition of literacy along with the
evolution of our educational ideology. Along the way, Nadin does a convincing
job describing what literacy should be in the future.
The book is comprised of
several sections which Nadin calls books. In Book V, Nadin describes an
interactive community in the age of connectivity. From artificial intelligence
to smart machines, Nadin challenges the limitation of associating language
literacy as a primary goal. Education of the future must grow to include more
than traditional books as the distribution of knowledge. Libraries of the
future must no longer exist as consolidated entities. They must be interactive
with the user. Accessibility is critical to accomplish this feat.
Nadin, Mihai. The civilization of illiteracy.
Dresden: Dresden University Press, 1997. PDF file.
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I find your topic to be very interesting, and I am excited to read more about your research and the controversial ideas you may find. I thought your previous source of H.G Wells was a good source because it described some of the concerns of our present electronic age, but the source itself being written at a time when there was no internet and mass amount of information so readily available.
ReplyDeleteBut anyways, a question you might consider would be whether libraries have more quality sources. By this I mean that there are a lot of sources online that can posted by anyone and published text is looked over by other people. Is this a problem of online sources? or is there a way this can be avoided?