STATEMENT:
Hi-tech does not increase your brain capacity: it merely exercizes your thumbs.
You cannot read without exercising your brain. You cannot learn computer skills without exercising your brain.
Not a few of you walk around with highly developed thumbs jammed deep into your own eye, like overweaned Oedipus Rex's, though lacking the nerve of that tragic king to pluck out your own eyes in order to better see the truth.
For you are merch-juggled children breastfed on marketing strategies hatched before you were born and are so fully inculcated with h-tech propoganda that it is safe to say that with few exceptions virtually your entire generation haven't the capacity to interrogate your own experience vis a vis the addictive, soul-numbing machines that have become mocking substitutes for your human experience.
This is where you fail. You paint our entire membership with one brush........the young. Many of us are, shall we say, mature. We remember, thru stories passed down, the Great Depression, WWII,and, God forbid, the Nazi. Our fathers walked thru those camps, and never forgot, and made sure we didn't. We've seen the films, the ovens, the stacked corpses. Thats why your original post is so shameful.
Not a single one of you on Mobile Read, in your responses to my point, demonstrate a capacity to question the Matrix in which you float: a mental and spiritual prison of the most engulfing social conditioning ever foisted by private enterprise upon a peer group of human beings.
Excuse me again. Bullcrap.
In this regard, you are no different than the children of any emergent totalitarian society, who cannot imagine a world without Big Brother. And it is chiefly that which I find so heartbreaking about the impact of hi-tech: not the machines per se but what the machines have made of you.
My country may be leaning towards that way........but not because of machines. Because of the majority of those who feel the government should redistribute the wealth, and provide for their needs under the guise of "fairness for all"
In fact, I sense from many of the responses that very few among you have bothered even to read in full or at all either of my essays but simply respond to each other's postings and vent with your thumbs instead of your minds.
I responded to your postings. You chose to ignore me. Which in no way upset me.
Your responses, in fact, are troublingly similar, as though formed from the same pool of 50 or so monosyllabic words. This is, as I understand it, endemic to the level of discourse that occurs in hi-tech: a perpetual public convocation of spewing illiterates.
Really?
It appears that my essay has inspired a generational backlash among many of you, who see this as a face-off between an old fart white book-worshipping Luddite (how you portray me) and mainly young, progressive, enlightened and exciting hi-techers (how many, if not all of you, regard yourselves).
Stop coloring all of us as "young!" This puts you in the same camp as those who dismiss you without trying to understand what you write.
So, I'd like to extend the following invite to any on this site. Lets thumbwrestle for three shirtless private rounds in an alley of my choice, and see who's left victorious: my 6'2”, 200 pound, tattooed, 57 year old military veteran Bronx-born poetry writing streetfighting ass or your nerdy and ignorant Silicon Folly digitized selves.
Oh, nice. I'm 5'4, female and 61 (no one gets my weight!) Why would I want to engage inany physical contest? How about this........actually sit down with someone who understands ebooks and computers and try to find a common ground. Again......we don't hate books. We don't read just the 'best sellers'. More people are exposed to the classics than ever before because they are out there FREE.
If defeated, I'll French with a Kindle
Okay, thats just gross. You still aren't understanding what you are saying. A Kindle is simply a device to have access to just about any book out there. Why would you french a book? 
but if you go down, you must not only toss your device but read in full classics that I'll list, ranging from Marcus Aurelius, Sophocles, Homer and the Old Testament to Flaubert, Tolstoy, Babel, Stendahl, Proust and George Eliot, to name but a few.
Sounds a little lopsided, eh?
And yes, there will be a test.