14 April 2014
The Digital Minds conference in London took a philosophical bent, questioning is this "golden age for publishing or the end of the book?"
Copernicus, Ptolemy, Einstein, Wittgenstein and Willard Quine (don't worry...he was a US philosopher and logician) were all name-checked in a presentation at yesterday's Digital Minds that was as abstract as the speaker's hair. Bill Thompson from the BBC Archives gave a philosophical masterclass on what we mean when we refer to a book and how the print and digital versions are very different animals, one passive, the other active.