Twenty-five years ago, Sven Birkerts published ‘The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.’ Have his fears and projections come to pass?

Twenty-five years ago, Sven Birkerts published “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.” Have his fears and projections come to pass?

  “The virtue of wrestling is to be a spectacle of excess,” Roland Barthes begins—but we are wary of excess in women, wary of too much flesh, too much blood, too much lust or power. Too much knowledge: Eve was tossed out of the garden, over …