Quote of the Week: Umberto Eco

From his new book (with Jean-Claude Carriere and Jean-Philippe de Tonnac) This is Not the End of the Book, Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose), offers up some pure poetry:

The Internet has returned us to the alphabet. If we thought we had become a purely visual civilization, the computer returns us to Gutenberg’s galaxy; from now on, everyone has to read.

More today on January Magazine here.