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Elijah Trabulse: The books will cease to exist

The expert predicted the demise of printed works in the medium term, lead to digital format

In the medium to long term, the books will cease to exist and the only way it can be read through electronic media, with this warning the International Book Fair (FIL) in Guadalajara last night recognized researcher, scholar and historian Mexican Trabulse Elias Atallah.

During the Tribute to the bibliophile, President of IDF, Raúl Padilla López, praised the work of Trabulse Atala, whom he described as a "great popularizer of science and technology in Mexico."

Also said the professor at El Colegio de Mexico has managed to make deep reflection on the history of science, to understand, firstly, the mentality of the scientist and the scope of their production and, on the other hand, the generality of context marked by economic and political structures.

Elijah explained that Trabulse (Mexico City, 1942) is an intellectual concerned and committed to the books and documents that record the cultural and scientific identity of the country.

With a critical position, he said, Trabulse refuses the recognition of certain stereotypes in search of an approach to life and work of scientists under-served, "those that endure only as an indication, like a fleeting reference."

In turn, the winner welcomed by that recognition and warned that within 50 years, "everyone will read electronic books and paper will be of museum."

This, he said, because digital technology is a book that transforms, like Gutenberg changed the manuscript book of movable type.

Even said that this situation is beginning to see some newspapers and magazines as well as a large number of instruments of knowledge, which are beginning to change.

"The last book yet, but as a bibliophile is unfortunate that disappears on paper, since I can not imagine a bibliophile mail," he said.

On the other hand, the specialist who is dedicated to the study of the manuscripts of Carlos Siguenza y Gongora to establish the chronology of ancient Mexico, spoke about the differences between a collector and a bibliophile.

He explained that "the difference between the collector and bibliophile, is that the book is to read it, is your friend, partner, is someone who can not do without. Instead, the collector finds the book as a rare or curious you can be stored. "

A bibliophile, he added, is a reader, a collector is an accumulator. "The first book known to have it, may have read one or two chapters, but I got to know him and have his fingerprints on the pasta."

And he said: "If there is a reader of his books, if not love, is not they mate, a collector."

Born in 1942 in Mexico City, Elijah Trabulse held a degree in Chemistry from 1960 to 1964 in the Faculty of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

He was a pupil of Joseph Gaos, Luis González González, Enrique Florescano, Moises Gonzalez Navarro, Jean Meyer, Jorge Alberto Manrique, María del Carmen Velázquez, Alejandra Moreno Toscano and Rafael Segovia.

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