In the symposium this week there was a discussion based around the limitations of print literacy vs network literacy. Neither of these literacies pre-exist us- people must keep doing it in order for it to exist. One question was ‘will the printed book ever become non-existent?’ The answer to that is as long as people are reading them they will exist. It reminds me of a reading in another subject about Raymond Williams. In order for a technology (or technical invention) to be a technology it must be used, and to use something we must have the knowledge to do so. Where there is no knowledge and no use it will no longer become needed.