Новите технологии и кризата на писменоста: антитези за опстанокот на печатот
New technologies and literacy crisis: antitheses for survival of the print

Summary/Abstract: The primary interest of this article are the implications of new technologies on the future of literacy, literature, books, writing and reading, as known at the time of its creation in the year of 2000.The article introduces the notion of hypertext and its related concepts - interactive writing and hyperfiction, as key paradigms of the third age of literacy. Their increasing adoption by various categories of users causes, among other, disappearance of the traditional understanding of the writer/author, erosion of language and destruction of privacy. It observes a kind of crisis of the literacy caused by computers and Internet, with simultaneous opening of questions related to the survival of printed editions that to a great extent count on readership with traditional understanding of signs and symbols.The article concludes that there is historical inevitability in replacing the predominant technologies for social communication, and that the crisis of printed editions, after their domination throughout several centuries, is less important compared to the crisis of the literacy and knowledge.

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