I hear you ask. Not at all. Only now they're buying their kids personal computers, that include, among other things, an encyclopedia on CD-ROM in the package. The executives at Encyclopedia Britannica failed to appreciate the tremendous magnitude of change that jelly beans represent. That company is now struggling through a very difficult reorganization.
New technology demands new responses.
When Plato considered the book, he realized it meant, ultimately, the demise of the academy as he knew it. For the academic enterprise did not end, nor will it end now. But it will change. The advent of the mass-produced book in 1500 did not end the schools then in existence. In Western society, where the new technology was embraced, the new educational institutions mushroomed.