The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book

Recently, Steven Berlin John­son gave a talk at his alma mater Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity on the future of text called The Glass Box And The Com­mon­place Book. It’s a bit dis­jointed, but def­i­nitely worth reading.

In case you’re won­der­ing, keep­ing a com­mon­place book involved tran­scrib­ing into it inter­est­ing or inspi­ra­tional pas­sages from one’s read­ing, assem­bling a per­son­al­ized ency­clo­pe­dia of quotations.

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