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it. Reading is a different experience than when we were young—each word offers the possibility for linking out to something else, and the main text just doesn’t have the same gravity it once did. But is this larger network actually providing us with a larger understanding?
Ahmir "Questlove Thompson • Creative Quest
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to... See more
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
The whole aesthetic economy is being rapidly altered, and what will replace it? Aside from glib tailored entertainments—that is, works that placate the surface itch without making us confront the deeper needs and purposes. This is an enormously important question: Can we live without addressing those?
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
What does it feel like to know everything all the time without taking your eyes off a small, luminous rectangle? What does it feel like to be a child of the phone? Where are the blinks, so seamless, so highly resolved, taking our minds now? We’re starting to find out. The phone is becoming visible. Whether it’s too late or not is hard to say.
Nichol
“What is the place of reading, and of the reading sensibility, in our culture as it has become?”
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Alan Jacobs • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Everything Is Television
