WM Birkerts

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DaniellaChoynowski/2008/02/sad_isnt_it.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RachelPrichard/2008/02/el_336_books_as.html#comments

"Many educators say that our students are less and less able to read, or analyze, or write with clarity and purpose. Who can blame the students? Everything they meet with in the world around them gives the signal: That was then, and electronic communications are now. (Birkerts, "Into the Electronic Millennium," Writing Material 63)"

Trackback: http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherUlicne/024436.html

“Inevitably, one of the first realizations is that a communications net, a soft and pliable mesh woven from invisible threads, has fallen over everything. The so-called natural world, the place we used to live, which served us so long as the yardstick for all measurements, can now only be perceived through a scrim. Nature was then; this is now. Trees and rocks have receded. And the great geographical Other, the faraway rest of the world, has been transformed by the pure possibility of access. The numbers of distance and time no longer mean what they used to. Every place, once unique, itself, is strangely shot through with radiations from every other place. “There” was then; “here” is now.” (p.64, Birkerts)

The link to my blog:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2008/02/el336_birkerts_technology_wast.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StormyKnight/024449.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DavidCristello/2008/02/wm_birkets.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeslieRodriguez/024458.html