Formulate and defend a position on the benefits and liabilities associated with an object, concept or process that has become digital, relative to its pre-digital existence. Your position must include an interdisciplinary perspective.
A process that has been around almost as long as language is reading. Reading is arguably as important as speaking, it is our main form of communication aside from speaking, we may not realize but communication in its most basic forms is simply reading, writing, and speaking. In recent decades reading has gone digital. For this prompt i’m specifically focusing on books when referrimg to thinsk we read although we read all kind of thinsg everywhere, everyday. The new kind of reading on digital book or e-readers has its benefits, readers can have thousands of books in the palm of their hand all at one time! It’s significantly less expensive to read digitl books than to but physical copies of real books, as well as it used less resources like trees. On the flip side, digital books still take up space digitally. They don’t feel as personal and permenant as a real book does, there’s almost no sense of ownership over the book. Real books can be written it, warped, and worn down which comes with owning a book, it feels like its catually been used and read and loved! However, some would argue that this is a downside to real books, that digital books are better becaue they cannot be physically effected like real books. As someone who loves to read, I would choose reading a real book over a digital book any day. Something about holding a real book in my hands, physically flipping through the pages, and being able to see how much progress I’ve made in reading the book will always make me choose real books over e-books.Â