More and more ways to communicate, less and less to say
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale
In barely one generation we’ve moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them — often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
The University of Coimbra General Library, Coimbra, Portugal
The Joy of Quiet by Pico Iyer in the NYT, via 3quarks.
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January 3rd, 2012 at 14:25
Beautiful libraries. I didn’t realize that even 20th-century universities still preferred Gothic- or Medieval-style structures for their libraries.