Umberto Eco - Will books become obsolete?

Will the new electronic media make books obsolete? Will the Web make
literature obsolete? Will the new hypertextual civilisation eliminate the
very idea of authorship?
- Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco is famous for The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.
Their publication brought him to public attention, but he was already well
known internationally as an academic.

He describes himself as a polychronic personality who, "will start many
things at the same time merging them together to form a continuous
interconnection ... .If I don't have many things to do, I am lost."

At the beginning of November, he gave a lecture at the newly opened
Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt and, we were glad to discover, Al-Ahram
Weekly published the text.


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