re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In the novel, books have not been banned, they have just died out as a medium of communication…everybody communicates using their Appärät

Interesting, though I don’t normally communicate with people around me in book form.:) I do wonder, though. Are they defining “publish” as being printed on paper, or do eBook formats count as well.

I’ve also put in quite a lot of thought about representing information (mostly because, as a software engineer, I think of problems that would be better represented in more than one dimension). We are very linear in our thinking currently, which might be as much influenced by books as they are influenced by our character representation. What if we needed to represent information in two or more dimensions, such as with pictures or models, and what if we could convey the same information to everyone that way? Why would books as we know them need to stay around?