Into The Electronic Millennium By Sven Birkerts

In Into the Electronic Millennium by Sven Birkerts, Birkerts claims that technology has made the engagement of media much more exposed than it was while in print, and the use of electronics has made new generations less likely to understand difficult pieces of literature. He points out that print text forces you to focus more on what it’s saying, while electronic media is easier to read without processing (Birkerts, Paragraph 1).
The use of technology has introduced a new way of speaking and communication, which will, in time, alter the way literature is displayed on electronic mediums. Because of these setbacks, literary curriculum is supposedly being made easier than it has been in the past, to accommodate new students that can’t understand more complex texts as much as students in the past have been able to

“Changes in information storage and access are bound to impinge on our historical memory” (Birkerts, Paragraph 31). With literature moving to electronic databases, new generations will begin to think of the past as a fantasy, not being able to imagine a world that isn’t at their fingertips. New generations will begin to care less about history, as they will be able to access information on it whenever they need to.
Finally, Birkerts claims that technology has made it so anyone’s personal information can be accessed through the click of a button, making the privacy of our lives disappear. Even when we are not online, our personal information is, as there is no privacy on the internet. “...It will make almost no sense to speak of the differentiations of subjective individualism” (Birkerts, Paragraph 35).
While Birkerts is correct in assuming that technology may alter the way we view history and literature, he fails to mention the infinite resources available to students which can aid in this process, as well as the changing methods in which students