[badbob001]

Care to explain this vague benefit that you are referring to? Is there a specific future problem or confusion that you would want addressed? Would future historians see such a sharp and distinct cutoff between reading prior to electronic media and after? Perhaps if there is a massive solar flare and everyone on earth is instantly evolved to a form that can 'read' in a totally different way, but I see our ways of reading as having changed gradually over time. Perhaps if you can explain the context of the issue and why you expect such ideas should be condensed into a single word or phrase.

Most of us just read with our eyes, despite the change of media, be it tablet, scroll, book, screen, epaper... it's pretty much the same human process. Would you suggest tablet-ting, scroll-ing, book-ing, screen-ing, epaper-ing, and perhaps an eventual brain-ing?

As for 'write', 'type' and 'compose', it's just simple word choice. No doubt when the typewriter came out, it was so new that they needed the word 'type' to be clear that something should not be written with a pen or pencil. I see the return to the word 'write' as society's way to reduce clutter from the language. I don't think you're going to pick up pen and paper if someone asks you to write them an email. I imagine you're already formulating a reply with the words digitizer pen and e-paper... And sometimes new words are created purely for marketing to distinguish one product from a similar product and not to signify something unique.

UPDATE: just realized you, on one day, have created four threads on pretty much the same topic posted. I believe this is what jason is referring to with the term 'carpet bombing'.