Stephen Fry on books & technology

Books are very lonely and unsocial things. Don’t get me wrong, I love books, but you are engaged with an individual author, and it is a marvellous feeling, but the idea that it is somehow a more natural form of communication than a laptop computer is nonsensical. They’re both technology. One just happened to come before the other. The thing to me that’s so releasing about digital technology is that it actually takes one back… The idea that you’re either a computer person or a book person is nonsensical and obscenely insulting to human intelligence, and human variety.

from a great talk by Stephen Fry.