Btw, in the current issue of Technology Review, from MIT, the following very brief letter to the editor appears in the Nov-Dec issue: titled [
The Way We Read Now]
One reader -- Danny Bloom in Taiwan -- was intrigued by the potential of a new pressure-sensitive touch screen ("A Touch of Ingenuity," September/October 2009) that could be used in a wide variety of applications, including e-reader screens. He wrote in:
I wonder if in the future we might need a new word to differentiate the kind of reading we do on computer or e-reader screens from the kind of reading we do on paper surfaces. I have heard a few new terms being bandied about on the Internet: screen-reading, browsing, skimming, scanning, even "diging." Reading is reading, of course. But we might not be "reading" the new-and-improved newspapers and magazines of the future. We might be "screening" them.
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