Of Books and Hammers
James Gleick, author of many fine things, thinks books will be around forever:
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.
But what if there aren’t any nails to hammer?
