Sunday, August 14, 2005
Cultural interaction and the future of the book
''The light of the disk is endless
like the light of the disks in the sky, sun and moon.
With a single push of our finger on a button
We pull up the shining gems of text.'
Yes, this is how people feel when they visit this blog.
Just kidding.
This is (according to Boing Boing) an excerpt from a poem written by a Tibetan monks in praise of digital materials. Some Tibetan monks are now working on laptops, transcribing text and burning DVDs in order to catalogue, preserve, reproduce and distribute their mystical books.
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