Author: Ali Shapiro

Screenshot of a phone screen with the poem "The Man whose Pharynx was bad" by Wallace Stevens

Close Watching: Tech + Text = The Reading Paradigm of the Future?!

  When it comes to good ol’-fashioned reading, the influence of new-fangled technology is rarely construed as “positive.” A recent Pew Internet Study suggests our that our brains are being “rewired” for attention deficiency by nonstop, rapid-fire access to information. Adbusters’ Micah White accuses the Kindle of “mimicking the external traits of a book while destroying…