Kindle 2

I found an interesting article on MSN.com today as I was scrolling through affairs and events. It was titled Book End by Jacob Weisberg and written about the Kindle 2 which is the newer addition of the e-book which was created back in 1999. The Kindle 2 is basically a hand held computer than enables us to connect with the world via Internet in yet another way.

There were many interesting points in this article that caused me to sit back and think. The first was how Jacob Weisberg, the author, started off the article in first person, referring to himself alot as well as saying "you" quite often. Also in the opening paragraph Weisberg seems to use an anecdote but what threw me off was the anecdote was at the end of the opening paragraph laying the grounds of a story rather than in the beginning.

Besides these writing choices I found the article to be extremely interesting to help me to truly understand the technological day and age that we find ourselves in today. Weisberg talked alot about how books are soon going to be losing popularity as newspapers and magazines are. That print will soon not have the credibility that it once held. He even used an interesting analogy saying that "You can't curl up with a laptop" which is true, showing a realization that books do have an upper-hand on laptops and 'the kindle 2.'

I just find it extremely interesting that we continue to produce these new ways to surf the Internet and stay 'connected' with the world when in reality these developments and advances are only creating a diversion instead of enhancing our writing world. It's mind blowing to wonder what the new inventions of the century will be as time goes on and technology continues to advance.