Reading is an experience, not a process

One of the recurrent human fantasies in regards to reading is that of reading books simply by touching or looking at them. In Mircea Eliade's 'Youth without Youth', the transhuman patient simply touches a book and 'absorbs' it. Falling asleep with a book in our lap might open a channel for one-way data transfer. Latter-day techno-utopias have replaced t…