This book aptly captures the effect technology is having on our social structure. Books were once as revolutionary as computers. Who uses scrolls anymore? Scrolls were more portable than stone tablets, and stone tablets were more portable than mud, sand and stone walls. They are all ways of conveying ideas, expressing them to other people.
The story exemplifies changes happening in the minds of children, people who will sometime be expected to carry on our cultural heritage. Why be surprised if they don't read if we abandon that technology? Why be surprised if our children play games, if that is what we do or what we hand them to do or even if we keep those things away from them?
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