Thread: Steve Jobs was wrong - People still read as much as they always have
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Old 01-20-2010, 04:41 PM   #11
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In my opinion, the rise of ebooks could be a renaissance for reading. People have been staring into TVs for 40 years but that has been largely replaced (for young people) by the Internet and mobile phones.

Using a mobile phone or the Internet requires some kind of interaction. Interacting with a discussion forum or texting someone requires a LOT more thinking and cognition than watching most TV shows. So many people are emerging from this braindead state of watching TV in their spare time to reading/writing/interacting.

Now on top of that (people getting used to online interaction and reading more) we have mobile computing technologies and highly portable e-readers making it easier to take books and the Internet with us. People are reading more than ever largely thanks to the Internet and that flows onto books/articles. It's a great thing for literature and for the human race. Television has it's place, but the Internet as a large repository of knowledge and books are much more interesting imo.
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