Superiority of Computers to Books :: Technology

Half a century ago, people delectationd books for everything related to education. In fact, the humans best source of fellowship and education was the book. If you wanted to look up a recipe, you opened a book. If you wanted to learn how to fix the radio on your car you opened a book called the manual. If you wanted to manage Black beards real name you will have to visit the library and go through hundreds of encyclopaedia pages before decision what you wanted. Now in the 21st century, all you need is a computer with an Internet connection and the whole world is on the dot a click away. soft the computer has re directd the book in almost every way.Computers are much better than books because a modern computer poop hold a gazillion times more information than the average 500-page book. If you wanted to do research about Martin Luther King Jr. It would take you at least an hour just to find the right book. Where as using a computer, you can find the same information in less t han 5 minutes. Many people use the internet as a dictionary. finding definitions, this way only takes the time to type the word. A laptop computer equal to the size and weight of a book holds data about any topic you can think of. A book only covers a specific topic. A computer can hold much more types of data than a book. When you carry one computer, you are carrying a hundred thousand books.In her essay, Proulx mentions an airplane is the best place to read a book and asks, ?What are planes but giant flying reading rooms Many people use their laptops or the on mount up entertainment system on a plane rather than reading a book. But, from my experience all I seen on planes is people sleeping, people watch movies and people working on their computers. I have only seen one person reading a book- a 90-year-old who probably doesn?t know what computers are. Proulx to a fault says we can judge what the person is like and their interests by looking at their books. We can only judge a pe rson up to some fulfilment when we look at their books. If we look at their software and files, we can see what they are interested in, and what kind of job they are doing, you can even know the type of music the