A Frontier of Ignorance Mashup

Here in the True Archives world we say that those who get their information from an electronic screen simply lack the deep reading experience that leads to understanding, creativity, and historical perspective. We have no empirical evidence that this is true, but who cares? Lack of authoritative data never stops us from insisting that printed books belong in the archives, under the custodial care of archivists rather than Biblioposers. On rare occasions we can even cite scholars that agree with our hysterical, undocumented claims, like Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, the author of The Printing Press as an Agent of Change:

"When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.”

So, in other words, as Information Scientists work overtime to marginalize the codex they are destroying the ability of future generations to actually understand what they are reading on the screen! It’s like a whole new frontier of dumbness! Is it not time for the Frontier Archivist to deal with this threat????