(exemplos de varios incunabula, retirados daqui).
"Landow (1996) writes, «We find ourselves, for the first time in centuries, able to see the book as unnatural, as a near-miraculous technological innovation and not as something intrinsically and inevitably human« (p.25). For hundreds of years, the book and the printed word had been taken for granted as part and parcel of our social and sociological worlds. In recent memory, our society had never known anything other than a book - and paper-influenced experience, so there was no reason, and, possibly, little critical means, for viewing the book as something fundamentally innovative and «other». With the advent of the networked computer, however, the biases and the specificity of the medium of paper are thrown into relief. This is so because the networked computer, like the book, contains built-in
assumptions and biases that influence the scholarly activities we can carry out (...)" (1)
valerie l. worthington e yong zhao
(1) WORTHINGTON, Valerie L. e YONG, Zhao - Does Your Duck Quack? Demonstrating Scholarly Savvy in the Age of the Networked Computer. [Em Linha]. [Consult. 18 Jan. 2009]. Disponível em: https://www.msu.edu/~worthi14/duck.html
este texto de valerie l. worthington e yong zhao dá que pensar na medida em que o livro impresso, tal qual o conhecemos, é relativamente recente na história da humanidade. desenvolvida por gutenberg, a técnica da impressão em caracteres móveis apenas foi desenvolvida no século XVI, depois de um longo período onde predominaram os códices em pergaminho. assiste-se, por isso, agora, a uma nova revolução: o livro virtual, a internet, as novas tecnologias.
