Slavery Reading
“The work is participatory, requiring a physical engagement that traditional reading does not. Readers decide which way to pursue the argument; they may go forward in the analysis or into the material to a depth and with a range a print journal does not permit.”
This quote was used to describe one of the ways that the digital work encompasses the four aspect of information that a computer should according to Vannevar Bush. I found this quote interesting because it represents something I never really thought about when doing research electronically in that the way we conduct research has completely changed in the past two decades. The efficiency that comes along with the way the internet is organized makes it hard to believe that we had to use indexes in the backs of books and encyclopedias to learn about topics.
Being a child of the internet age doing my research on the web comes as second nature but it must have been a revolution for the men and women of past ages who used to have to toil over books in a library for hours to find what I can come up with in 30 min of searching google. I think this is one of the things about the internet that makes it truly the greatest thing to happen to the world in a long time in the fact that it doesn’t change what we do but how we do everything.