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The emphasis on books and reading is " Learning is not to be found on a print out " (pg. 2). Learning has taken on so many new forms that this statement may soon be obsolete. Books and reading are being challenged by computer technology, and computer technology may have the same complaint in the future by whatever technology that is positioned to take its place. When we go back to Ong's essay that the pencil is a technology, then what stops the computer from asserting the same claim. The same books that are required to be read by children can be accessed on the internet. Does that make the book non effective because it was retrieved from the internet. It is in the written form still though it may be retrieved from the internet. So does the statement that "learning is not to be found on a print out" have the same value if i buy the book online. The same book that i would go to the library and get, i would get online, print it out word for word, and i would not learn because it is a print out? Wall street and many businesses that are the lifeline of the U.S. uses print outs to do their daily business. Are they less effective because they do not use books to read profit and analysis statements? This statement can be relegated to just an opinion as quick as my personal opinion can in the eyes of whoever deems it not relevant or important.