Books

February, 1993

Since That First Egyptian scribbled on papyrus, books haven't changed much. But now there's a movement afoot to replace (or perhaps augment) that package of pages full of printed text with glowing screens, computer diskettes and CD-ROMs. Like latter-day Luddites, some booklovers rail against this corruption. Computer nerds keep grinning at their VDTs, confident that the future belongs to them.To see what lies over the horizon on this latest literary front, we decided to explore the brave new wor...