The Fleur!Cowles Flair Symposium 2000, The 'Infinite Library' -: Keynote address

The new century brings both a gloomy and a cheerful perspective on the status of reading within the wide range of literature. The losses and the gains of past decades are worth noting, and they are seen for what they are. Though 'the book' is not what it once was, the technological promise of the future can make it more than it was in terms of functionality.