
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman • 15 highlights
amazon.comIn our busy and distracted society, deep reading is increasingly rare. Deep reading changes people.
But in a recent podcast appearance, James Mariott, a critic and columnist for The Times of London ,summarized a hypothesis that has been gaining traction: as we switch our information consumption from print to digital devices, our ability to think deeply degrades.