Media theorist Neil Postman observes that more than fearing those who would ban books in the future, he dreads that there would be no reason to ban them, for no one would want to read a book.
In the digital age of Big Data and growing technological availability of information, the progressively eroded status of books reduces them almost to an anachronistic rumor.
The work ‘drills’ into the Hebrew Encyclopedia – an authoritative source of knowledge, in order to save some of the information, and leaves the book wounded and unnecessary