After reading Bolter's introduction, I wanted to continue reading. I enjoy Bolter's ideas and his way of expressing them. He starts off by giving the history of printing and how it overtook handwriting. Bolter quickly switches to tell that we are living in the "late age of print". I agree with Bolter that we are definitely living in the late age of print."Word processing, databases, e-mail, the World Wide Web, and computer graphics are displacing printed communication for various purposes" (Bolter 2).
I do not agree with Bolter on one aspect. I don't think that books will ever completely be replaced. There are many people who favor both the World Wide Web and a regular book. Most of what Bolter writes in his introduction is already known, but he presents it in a way that makes the reader reflect. The way in which the World Wide Web is drastically becoming more popular is completely obvious, but I never actually thought about it like I am now.
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