Into the Electronic Millennium is a great exposition of what Birkerts thinks to be the major problems with electronic communications. He builds a strong argument that the switch from print to electronic media not only radically changes the contexts that lay behind reading, but also the way that societal functions like language and language work. …show more content…
If he had examined the way that the switch from oral to written communication had changed and shaped society back in it’s day, then looked to compare the changes then with the changes he sees today, I think this would have been a far more compelling analysis. Although Birkerts does provide strong analysis of the points that he brings up, to the author it appears that this is a glaring miss in his spectrum of