Anthony Grafton published an interesting article on Digitization and its discontents titled Future Reading, in the Nov. 5, 2007, New Yorker. It sparks a lot of interesting thoughts about the course of digitization.
Here is a quote from the article:
“The rush to digitize the written record is one of a number of critical moments in the long saga of our drive to accumulate, store, and retrieve information efficiently. It will result not in the infotopia that the prophets conjure up but in one in a long series of new information ecologies, all of them challenging, in which readers, writers, and producers of text have learned to survive.”
