Looking through this catalog, that I have never heard of before this class, I was amazed by the plethora of different things they had. They have everything from Trout Fishing in America to Space Structures. When trying to find something in this catalog that is illustrative of religion, the ideas of self or where Jobs is going to go with the future of Personal Computers, I decided to pick the Subject Guide to Books in Print.
Out of everything in the catalog I picked this one because I think it relates to religion in the sense of community. The first line of the advertisement says, “We use it, maybe you can” which is the vendors way of saying we do this, so you should too. To me, it makes it seem like they want everyone to use this, a common thing that everyone could have in common, which is what a community is.
I also believe it relates to where Jobs is going with the Personal Computer. In the advertisement is says, “Outside of a library, there’s no better way to find out whats available in a particular area,” which reminds me of the internet because the internet can be used to find things. This relates to Jobs because the ‘i’ in iMac stands for internet. These advertisements could have been where he got his first glimpse of what the internet would become, and the importance of it.
I remember these big Books in Print books. It is hard to imagine now how things were before this info was available in a moment on Google. The presence of a big book like this truly is Google before Google was here (as Jobs notes about WEC).
ReplyDeleteOne a stylistic note, try to separate your paragraphs and maybe use a bigger font too..