Books Vs. Technology

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Will the Internet and other New Technology Replace the Book as the Chief Tool of Learning?

Daily a new technological innovation is introduced into the world. A few of these technologies have taken over some certain important sectors such as the communication sectors where emails and Smartphone’s have revolutionized how people communicate with each other and global friends. The Internet and other technologies such as smart TV in that it removes time from people's different interests, gives information and entertainment, however not in the slightest bit can make the contrast and the personal experience, warmth, and satisfaction that can be derived from reading a book. This is by all account, not the only motivation behind why the Internet and other technologies will never replace books as the key tool for learning, for books gives an in-depth understanding of a subject that sitting before a laptop screen cannot give. People can download content from an Internet source, yet the stylish nature of sheets of downloaded content come up short of what is to be desired from books. An all around composed book upgrades a person’s reading experience.

Books are still the most neatly packed and invaluable means for passing on dense quantities of knowledge in an efficient and secure package. The simple portability nature of the book is the thing that makes it the most easily to understand means of acquiring knowledge and wisdom ever invented by man. This has been reinforced by Ursula K. Le Guin statement that books are curious artifacts in their nature (175).The notion that one can convey in one’s pocket a play by Shakespeare, a novel by Charles Dickens or Tom Clancy, Plato's Dialogs, or the Bible in a little soft copy version is mind boggling. People underestimate such unprecedented accommodation, not understanding that the book itself has experienced a significant advancement since the creation of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455 and Shakespeare's First Folio in 1623, only three years after the religious pilgrims arrived at Plymouth to colonize the New World.

Not just has the craftsmanship and art of printing and book assembling been extraordinarily enhanced throughout the hundreds of years, however the immense assortment of topic now accessible in books is bewildering, without a doubt. Indeed, the Internet requires the steady contribution of writers and their books to give it the data that makes it a valuable device for learning and research. This support the fact books support the vitality of people as they can make them more active rather than the internet and other technologies such as televisions that make people to be locked up in their living rooms away from vitality and clash of public space as suggested by Steven Johnson (P.273).

Another critical motivation behind why the Internet and other technologies will never replace books as the key learning tool is on account of the fact that individuals who wish to be novelists or writers need to see their works forever distributed as books that are something one can hold in their hands, see, feel, skim through, and read at one's recreational time without the requirement for the internet or any technology. The author may utilize a word processor rather than or a pen and a notebook, yet the end item should, in the long run, wind up as a book on the off chance that it is to have an incentive to the reading group. Besides, the writer may utilize the Internet for research on the subject he or she is writing about similarly as he or she may utilize a library for that reason, yet the finished work will end up to be a book.

As opposed to supplanting books, the Internet and other technologies are presently being utilized by e-commerce firms like Amazon and Barnes and Noble to sell an ever-increasing number of books to customers on a worldwide scale. Also, despite the fact that the Internet gives purchasers a substantially wider choice of books than is accessible in any one book shop, it will never supplant the bookstore where the reader can read to his heart's desire and now even settle down in an armchair and read a book until closing time. The enormous new super book shops now serve espresso and baked goods, show live readings by writers, and remain open late. They are getting to be plainly social centers in their groups. The internet and other technologies are along these lines no match for a well-invested book shop. Nor will the Internet ever supplant the sheer happiness regarding reading in a curator book shop or heading off to a book fair and holding a book and leafing through pages printed over a hundred years ago. Books give an extension to the past, to those who have gone before us and have abandoned us the astuteness collected by their background. Books have that otherworldly capacity to breathe life into the past through the expressions of the individuals who lived in years passed by. On the off chance that you need to genuinely know history, you should read the real expressions of the individuals who lived it, complete and unrevised by today's defenders of political correctness.

Books are additionally allies in a way that the Internet can never be. The writer of a book addresses us straightforwardly through the pages. We hear his or her voice. On the off chance that the story is convincing, it will turn out to be our very own piece of attitudes, identities and give us an ordeal which we will have had through the creator. We will have realized what it resembled to survive a death camp, or carry on with the life of an extraordinary on-screen character or statesman or artist, or endure climbing Mount Everest, or cheer in making an incredible logical revelation. Each of us has just a single life to live. However, we can vicariously carry on a considerable number of different lives through books composed by other people. That is the reason the energy of the book can never be supplanted by the Internet and other technologies. As mentioned by Nicholas Carr that the internet can affect our brains and ability to read books, therefore, it should be given an opportunity to replace books at all costs as it will make people not to think and stupid (P.93).

Conclusively, this is not to imply that the Internet and other technologies are any short of what it is. The Internet, as it keeps on developing, is positively a standout amongst the most exceptional technological innovations in the world today. Its capacity to associate every one of us with the whole world is the thing that makes it so unprecedented. Through email, you can speak with anybody anyplace who additionally has an email address. However, the Internet and other technologies will never replace books as the key learning tools.

Works Cited

Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google making us stupid?" Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education 107.2 (2008): 89-94.

Johnson, Steven “Everything Bad is Good For You” Writing from sources .Ed.Brenda Spatt, Boston/New York: Bedford/St.Martins,2011.272-274.

Le Guin, Ursula K., “Staying Awake,” Writing from Sources.Ed.Brenda Spatt, Boston/New York: Bedford/St.Martins,2011.175.