Not all screens are created equal

At Culture11, Alan Jacobs responds to an essay by Christine Rosen in which she laments the multiplication of various screens in the lives of we 21st century humans: computer, phone, TV, etc. (see ‘People of the Screen‘).

Jacobs says not so fast …

“There is no such thing as ‘the screen’; there are screens, plural, and they are not all the same.”

Read his entire post, in which he recommends Albert Borgmann’s work, Holding On to Reality: the Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium, to gain some proper perspective on new technologies.