There will be no sticky, little fingers fondling pages after the eBook takes over. Will endings become beginnings when you're not holding an actual story book in your hands? Will children flip back to those ghoolish images or fall in love with words and pictures in the same way they did with the tactile object in hand? How has technology shifted our relationship to books? Part of the audio sketch series, Micro-Texts, which consist of 11 creatively produced commentaries that explore the cultural impact of technology. Produced weekly in the last three months of 2000 for the PRI-distributed "Beyond Computers," each piece still reflects a contemporary view of how machines are ruling our lives.

There will be no sticky, little fingers fondling pages after the eBook takes over. Will endings become beginnings when you're not holding an actual story book in your hands? Will children flip back to those ghoolish images or fall in love with words and pictures in the same way they did with the tactile object in hand? How has technology shifted our relationship to books? Part of the audio sketch series, Micro-Texts, which consist of 11 creatively produced commentaries that explore the cultural impact of technology. Produced weekly in the last three months of 2000 for the PRI-distributed "Beyond Computers," each piece still reflects a contemporary view of how machines are ruling our lives.