{"id":821,"date":"2012-02-02T06:52:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T11:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=821"},"modified":"2012-05-19T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:22:51","slug":"postscript-ereading-and-the-post-gutenberg-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2012\/02\/02\/postscript-ereading-and-the-post-gutenberg-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Postscript. eReading and the Post-Gutenberg Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1050\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ereaders1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1050 \" title=\"ebooks, eReading\" src=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ereaders1.jpg\" alt=\"ebooks, eReading\" width=\"600\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ereaders1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ereaders1-300x59.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ebooks, eReading<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Postscript:\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>eReading and the Post-Gutenberg Age<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am highly conscious that Google Books made my discovery of <a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2011\/07\/22\/of-true-religion-john-milton\/\">Milton\u2019s \u201cOf True Religion\u201d<\/a> possible. Without Google\u2019s digitizing much of the intellectual heritage of humanity, now available from anywhere on earth, I would never have found this piece by Milton, since modern scholarly editors thought they knew better than Milton what was worth writing and reading. I feel, therefore, it is incumbent on me to give credit where credit is due. Literary, intellectual study and scholarship have and will continue to benefit from what is clearly a Post-Gutenberg Revolution. As a writer and poet, I am constantly now, even for years, finding one thing after another impacted by the exponential transformation in the availability of knowledge and information, the most nuanced, substantive dimensions of literary and aesthetic study, classic works, books, and publications. The world has truly entered into a new age, properly called the Post-Gutenberg Age.<\/p>\n<p>Less recognized is the fact that the requisite spiritual vision appropriate to sustaining it is evolving, has evolved, and is manifesting itself in\u00a0<em>lived experience<\/em>. In time, the world too will increasingly awaken to that transformative recognition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\">Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postscript:\u00a0eReading and the Post-Gutenberg Age I am highly conscious that Google Books made my discovery of Milton\u2019s \u201cOf True Religion\u201d possible. Without Google\u2019s digitizing much of the intellectual heritage of humanity, now available from anywhere on earth, I would never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2012\/02\/02\/postscript-ereading-and-the-post-gutenberg-age\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[8,259,805,186,305,93,454,490,294,320],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ereading","tag-beyond-postmodernism","tag-ebooks-2","tag-ereading","tag-frederick-glaysher","tag-google-books","tag-john-milton","tag-literature","tag-post-gutenberg-age","tag-publishing","tag-sony-reader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}