Treasures and Tools, Creating Rarity
Caxton Club/Newberry Library 2008 Symposium on the History of the Book: Rare Books and the Common Good: American Perspectives, Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 09am
Edward Tenner
The author of Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge Effect and Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology discusses his research into the role of collectors in expanding the frontiers of scholarship, especially in his own field, the history of technology. He argues that the Web makes the uniqueness and physical features of each printed book more important rather than less. (lilithcat)… (more)
The author of Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge Effect and Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology discusses his research into the role of collectors in expanding the frontiers of scholarship, especially in his own field, the history of technology. He argues that the Web makes the uniqueness and physical features of each printed book more important rather than less. (lilithcat)… (more)
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