Wow, this is so good. You’ve voiced so many of my thoughts. Reading is dead, but does it matter? It seems like it does because reading matters to me. But maybe it doesn’t.
Excellent article. Shame it's not 240 characters or less... I'm joking - except of course the joke isn't really funny. Unless... you suffer from gallows humour, then it's funny to think how unfunny that is. Oh. What are we to do? Humans are easily lead. We've all been led into a pit of shiny rectangles vying for 5 seconds of attention to distract us until we're replaced by robots. But... couldn't we fight back? Couldn't we make the shiny rectangles into better long-form reading environments?? Here's an irony: I loved your article, but I couldn't help but be distracted by the flotilla of ads surrounding it. I had to be good at reading, and good at ignoring distractions. Can't we gear our tech to be distraction free when it ought to be? All the shiny addictiveness of the phone, but designed for concentration, not skittishness? Maybe...? Anyone...? Anyhow... Thank you for articulating what every deep reader is thinking...
Wow, this is so good. You’ve voiced so many of my thoughts. Reading is dead, but does it matter? It seems like it does because reading matters to me. But maybe it doesn’t.
Excellent article. Shame it's not 240 characters or less... I'm joking - except of course the joke isn't really funny. Unless... you suffer from gallows humour, then it's funny to think how unfunny that is. Oh. What are we to do? Humans are easily lead. We've all been led into a pit of shiny rectangles vying for 5 seconds of attention to distract us until we're replaced by robots. But... couldn't we fight back? Couldn't we make the shiny rectangles into better long-form reading environments?? Here's an irony: I loved your article, but I couldn't help but be distracted by the flotilla of ads surrounding it. I had to be good at reading, and good at ignoring distractions. Can't we gear our tech to be distraction free when it ought to be? All the shiny addictiveness of the phone, but designed for concentration, not skittishness? Maybe...? Anyone...? Anyhow... Thank you for articulating what every deep reader is thinking...