[00:00.02]These days
[00:02.84]The letter's like a freeze frame
[00:08.97]All the old ways
[00:12.19]Get cluttered in the bric brac bones of the day
[00:18.78]Now the book lights
[00:21.83]They flicker like the fireflies
[00:27.69]In the long night
[00:31.55]The xerox of our sheets bound back for the day
[02:27.95][02:08.74][01:49.81][01:01.47][00:42.40]Will we sit like old friends
[02:13.36][01:54.45][00:47.45]When the day of the book ends?
[02:18.38][01:59.03][00:51.90]Will we sit like old friends
[02:23.12][02:03.88][00:56.66]When the day of the book ends?
[01:06.55]Feel the spine bend
[01:10.23]The scanners light the loose ends
[01:15.94]When the letter sends
[01:19.93]Our voices become flash, like matches to flame
[01:25.68]At your bedside
[01:29.50]You're reaching for the outside
[01:35.20]In the long night
[01:39.02]
[02:33.72]McLuhan:
[02:34.29]Instead of going out and buying a packaged book
[02:37.23]of which there have been five thousand copies printed,
[02:40.25]you will go to the telephone,
[02:41.87]describe your interests, your needs, your problems,
[02:45.88]and the ... will be right over ,and they at once xerox,
[02:49.45]with the help of computers from the libraries of the world,
[02:51.95]all the latest material just for you personally,
[02:55.46]not as something to be put out on there on a bookshelf.
[03:01.83]They send you the package as a direct personal service.
[03:05.47]This is where we're heading under electronic information conditions