From Scroll to Screen
The influence of Christianity and the Bible on information technology and how we read today.
On Facebook, I am friends with author Anne Rice. Well...At least her fan page anyways. One thing I really appreciate about her is that she is personally interacting with us(Way cool) and she's always posting articles that make you think. And this one really hit home this morning.
Please pay very close attention to what is not explicitly being said in this article.
Here is the key phrase that hit me like a ton of bricks. "nobody realized what a good idea it was until a very interesting group of people with some very radical ideas adopted it for their own purposes. Nowadays those people are known as Christians, and they used the codex as a way of distributing the Bible."
Christianity has changed and benefitted the world in many ways. In my mind this is simply more evidence of the Kingdom of God spreading and filling the whole Earth. Yes folks...Jesus is even Lord of technology...8-) Enjoy...
From Scroll to Screen
By LEV GROSSMAN
Published: September 2, 2011
Something very important and very weird is happening to the book right now: It’s shedding its papery corpus and transmigrating into a bodiless digital form, right before our eyes. We’re witnessing the bibliographical equivalent of the rapture. If anything we may be
