Why would you think that would happen?
And while I'm at it, why is "consumption device" an insult? Books are consumption devices. Nobody sneers at a child with a book.
Why would you think that would happen?
And while I'm at it, why is "consumption device" an insult? Books are consumption devices. Nobody sneers at a child with a book.
It's not an insult. But consumption devices are lamentable as far as they replace production devices. I love books, and I don't sneer at children who read them. But I would like all children to have access and exposure to writing tools so they realize that they too make books.
Sure, the modern pace of life makes writing and printing a book seem difficult but at the time modern books were a fantastic democritization of the ability to produce literature and distribute ideas compared to the status quo of being illiterate and going to church to be read to by those with access to the books.