Wednesday, October 10, 2018

We’re Reading More, But Is It Junk? Distraction?

The average person “consumes about 34 gigabytes across varied devices each day” — some 100,000 words’ worth of information. “Neither deep reading nor deep thinking can be enhanced by the aptly named ‘chopblock’ of time we are all experiencing, or by 34 gigabytes of anything per day,” Maryanne Wolf argues.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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