I'd bet the advent of computers, not having to work with drafts on paper and suffer from rewriting them, has something to do with this. Godel Escher Bach is a

I'd bet the advent of computers, not having to work with drafts on paper and suffer from rewriting them, has something to do with this. Godel Escher Bach is a book that was enthusiastically written with a word processor. And that explains a lot about it.