An interesting premise, that the age of print came with an open parenthesis with the introduction of the printing press and went with a closed parenthesis with the coming of the internet. This approach is powerful since it allows one to draw parallels about how society changed at the dawn of print and how it is changing with the sun-setting of the age of printed media. That said, Jarvis’ writing style is a bit clumsy and he struggles to hold a narrative thread throughout the story, jumping around at times and leaving the reader lost in the wilderness. The book leans a little too heavily on the parenthesis construct, which seems like a missed opportunity because there were some other really interesting bits of research and knowledge that could have stood on their own. While I found it intellectually stimulating, by the end I struggled to maintain attention.