“The printed workd remains the most powerful vehicle for conveying complicated information—though the electronic word is starting to give it a run for its money. (Johnson 23) “
This quote is trying to say that actual tangible refrences are more important and than information online. I am not sure if he is talking about eletrical books versus bound books or books in general versus online information. I am not sure how I feel about this opnion. At the moment I think that I agree with him but I am not sure. I think if electronic sources include written books and journals that are put online then I will have to disagree. Today when writing a research paper students rarely go to the physical library. Most sources are put into the online databases so why go to the library? Libraries are going slowly out of date because of this. This is why I think that the eletronic word is getting more power. The newspaper and magazines have power over the people but the articles also appear online. So there is a big gray area of which has more of an influence. This has a lot to do with my topic because I am doing Google. Google is the main source of eletronic information.
