If tomorrow they invented a way to beam information into your brain (a la The Matrix), would there be a subset of librarians who would object to it on the grounds that it usurps the activity of reading?
I think so.
Agnostic, Maybe
the neverending reference interview of life
I will object on the grounds that I know the first people to use that technology will be advertisers and there will be no way to “look away.”
I read for many purposes — acquiring information is only one of them.