"Then again the Net isnt the alphabet, and although it may replace the printing press, it produces something altogether different. The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author's words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by another act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas."
"Just as there's a tendency to glorify technological progress, there's a countertendency to expect the worst of every new tool or machine."
(This second quote is a contradicting claim.)
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