New Yorker article on the decline of reading, and on the cognitive changes in literate as opposed to oral or audiovisual brains and minds.
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Date: 2008-01-14 03:07 (UTC)From:We are living in the most literate society and age in human history: a Golden Age of the Republic of Letters. If you compare, not across decades but across centuries, this becomes obvious.