Reading in a Whole New Way


The very beginning how it all started, can be uncomprehending to some who are born of a later generation. They never have had to experience the feelings you get from writing a handwritten letter verses a simple text message. This article describes the past uses of communication and ways that people had only dreamed of experiencing. They give statistics about how screens project this idea of a false society that we are meant to believe, but reading from a physical book or a newspaper can provide a person with an intense feeling, and can also be less dangerous for a person in the long run. There is a quote at the end of the article that says, "Screens will be the first place we'll look for answers, for friends, for news, for meaning, for our sense of who we are and who we can be." And when the future is already determining who we will be turn out to be, then it may be hard to divert from that path that is already drawn.


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/reading-in-a-whole-new-way-1144822/