Benjamin on the future of the book

andrewgreene:

evgenymorozov:

Couldn’t be more timely:

…already today, as the contemporary mode of knowledge-production demonstrates, the book is an obsolete mediation between two different card-filing systems. For everything essential is found in the note boxes of the researcher who writes it, and the reader who studies it assimilates it into his own note file.

Walter Benjamin, Einbahnstraße, 1928

The man was as prescient as they come.