Dave Eggers

And instead all the new library designs have this airport look

and they hide the books in the basement, and it's so sad.

And what I love is that kids really want the tactile.

They want soft edges and pillows and fabric and velvet and wood and typewriters.

We have all these typewriters.

It's the first thing they all gravitate to, the typewriters.

This presumption, though, that, oh, kids love screens, so we're going to give them more screens.

It's such a strange...

impulse to sort of to channel everything through this one narrow portal as opposed to saying painting will be painting books will be books tech is fine over here we don't all have to

merge with or be subservient to the tech overlord.

We can exist separately over here.

And I hope things are sort of trending the other way now that they realize the catastrophe of kids writing with AI and realizing just how bad that is.

We'll see.

Of course.

Yeah.

A lot of times.

So I spent a lot of time in the Strand.

Maybe that's the ultimate one in New York, probably.

I go to a lot of sort of the ones adjacent, attached to libraries.

You know, the friends of this library will have a bookstore.