Não resisto: Warren Ellis a comentar Dave Eggers e a atingir em cheio no mais elementar dos medos que nos leva a rejeitar tecnologias:
"Dave Eggers: I don’t want to wake up and look at a screen. I feel like as a society, we try to put everything on that same goddamn screen, and pretty soon we’re going to be eating on the screen or, like, making love through the screen. It’s just sort of like: ‘Why does everything have to be on the screen?’"
E Ellis responde à letra: "Some beardy druid from the oral tradition, a few thousand years back: I don’t want to wake up and look at paper. I feel like as a society, we try to put everything on that same (Brythonic swear word) piece of paper, and pretty soon we’re going to be eating on paper or, forsooth, making love through paper. It’s just sort of like: "Why does everything have to be on the paper?""
Brilhante, mas não é novidade. Já Camões nos dizia que "O tempo cobre o chão de verde manto/Que já coberto foi de neve fria". E nas respostas à pergunta da Edge deste ano também encontrei esta pérola de pensamento crítico: "Before cuneiform, we revered the epic poet. Before Gutenberg, we exalted good handwriting. We still gasp at feats of linear memory", na opinião de George Church.
