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This Film Is Ironic Because It Reflects What We Are Heading For.

posted 13 years ago by royalprince
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I belong to a group on Facebook that is trying to boycott EBooks, Nooks etc. I'm not saying there is a conspiracy ,but with the Ebooks, Nooks, etc. are diminishing the importance of books in our society. I spoke with librarians who are furious over these computerized readers, and there is a move by individuals who are pushing the Library of Congress to eliminate books in the library system and books altogether! The eBook, Nook, etc is not a book but reduces the importance of books by making the information from a book like an icon on a small computer screen in which the format enables you to connect on the internet and to your email. This is NOT a book! Therefore, the prominence and importance of books in our society will be reduced to be part of the collage of information on a microchip. They are going to enforce this system in which you have no choice. Technology years ago allowed people to use a color TV, or a black and white TV. Now, you have to buy the recent technology just to function or else! I'm not a loon or a conspirator. I just think we are heading for problems because we live in a society of computer technology lunatics who think living in a society like this is Utopia! This film is ironic because its message is very profound,and it reflects a similar crises what we are heading for.

[–] ejioforobi 10 years ago

How ironic to see a man using a computer to complain about people using computers and using ebooks.

[–] totokeke 10 years ago

I disagree. Amazon sells the Kindle and the Fire -- names both associated with book burning, even if Amazon will tell you the name "kindle" means to "fire up your imagination." Of course they'll say anything.

The internet has destroyed the beautiful epistolary history that's part of literature, maybe you're not old enough to have the excitement of receiving a letter from a dear friend or even a catalog from an obscure, fun store. Can you imagine getting emotionally worked up over an email? I love hearing from my friends via email, but you don't get tone, the tactile enjoyment of the letter itself, and people write differently now. Not better, just differently.

It's only a matter of time before these so-called "eBooks" become delivery devices for advertisement, just like television and now the internet. Cable TV used to be just that -- no ads, you're already paying for the programs by paying the cable company. So, knock yourself out with your "tablet" and the ads that will, I assure you, come along with whatever you're already paying for.

[–] novastar_6 10 years ago

It's only a matter of time before these so-called "eBooks" become delivery devices for advertisement, just like television and now the internet. Cable TV used to be just that -- no ads, you're already paying for the programs by paying the cable company. So, knock yourself out with your "tablet" and the ads that will, I assure you, come along with whatever you're already paying for.

And here we get into another of Bradbury's works, The Murderer, not necessarily the 1953 story, but the adaptation he did for his 80s Bradbury Theater show,

Albert Brock: Remember what happened when cellulars first came in? At first they were just supposed to be used for emergencies: if you got stuck in traffic or had a breakdown. But then people couldn't resist using them, they always were calling, calling, and if it wasn't the telephone, it was the television and the radio, AM/FM, or the VCR, or the computer or the fax machine. Or the Walkman or the watchman, or the discman, or the motion pictures at the corner multiplex, and THEN larger than life in your own living room commercials coming at you from all directions and phone polls and junk fax!

[–] kenburke0627 9 years ago

Nothing, I say again NOTHING, will EVER diminish the importance of books!!!

[–] louiseculmer 8 years ago

books being available as ebooks etc means that getting rid of books would now be impossible, since they are everywhere now. it doesn't really matter whether a person reads a paper book or an ebook, the content is still the same.

[–] kalelabud 8 years ago

what's the problem with reading an e-book? you're reading the same way. "it's not a book"? that's the same thing as saying watching a movie in your computer or in your dvd is "not a movie"