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The Atlantic / Jeff Jarvis / Sep 24, 2023
“Fifteen years ago, in What Would Google Do?, I called for the book to be rethought and renovated, digital and connected, so that it could be updated and made searchable, conversational, collaborative, linkable, less expensive to produce, and cheaper to buy. The problem, I said, was that we so revered the book, it had become sacrosanct. ‘We need to get over books,’ I wrote. ‘Only then can we reinvent them.’ I recant.”
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