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Cérebro no mundo digital: os desafios da leitura na nossa era, O (Portuguese Edition)

I will suggest that the future of the human species can best sustain and pass on the highest forms of our collective intelligence, compassion, and wisdom by nurturing and protecting the contemplative dimension of the reading brain.

Marianne Wolf

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What will be the fate of reading? I don’t mean the left-to-right movement of the eyes as we take in information, but the age-old practice of addressing the world by way of this inward faculty of imagination. I mean reading as a filtering of the complexities of the real through artistic narrative, reflection, and orchestration of verbal imagery.

Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities

Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Text in books are fixed, permanent Books represent authority. Screens are fluid, dynamic, never finished (Wikipedia is a great example). There’s no authority to tell you the truth. You have to assemble your own truth

David Perell • Kevin Kelly: Seeing the Future

I too have tussled with, a decade later, in contemplating the challenge of cultivating wisdom in the age of information, particularly in a media landscape driven by commercial interest whose very business model is predicated on conditioning us to confuse information with meaning. (Why think about what constitutes a great work of art — how it moves ... See more

Maria Popova • Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers

young novice readers tend to move through three short, fairly predictable steps. First, they make errors that are semantically and syntactically appropriate, but that bear no phonological or orthographic resemblance to the real word (“daddy” for “father”). Once they learn some rules of grapheme-phoneme correspondence, their errors show orthographic

Maryanne Wolf • Proust and the Squid

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

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“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
— E.O. Wilson (1999: 294)