The Digital Age..thoughts on mondays class

At the end of our last class we were discussing the transition into the digital works. I thought it was interesting to hear the term "googleization" as well. Mostly because its a search engine that is so new. I recall when Yahoo or ask geeves were the main ones. We live in a society that is digital. I think it is very important to keep libraries like the one we visited but its also nice to have that stuff online so that if someone in California wants to see what we have they dont have actually come to Buffalo to view it. I think that we will always have these original prints but at the same time its more likely that the digital thing is what we will be refrencing. Sort of like we were discussing with the Mona Lisa. How we can see the real thing if we go to it, but we can also see that online, as much as the real experience is nice for research purposes its ok to have it digital. There is a whole market for digital text books as well. Instead of going to the bookstore just download it online and its always avalible. And if you really want it print it out. I think thats where that is headed.