The "most blogged" story in the Times today is "Online, R U Really Reading?" by Motoko Rich, whose beat is books and publishing. Combine that piece with the Nicholas Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stoopid" in The Atlantic Monthly and you've got two great trampolines for launching deeper debates on how hyperlinks and digitization may be changing the way we think.
What I wonder is whether kids today can be given the tools and incentives to do both: learn to read linearly and deeply a la the "old-fashioned" book while also gaining mastery over the link-to-link, be-aware world of the Web. As a parent, that's what I want for my girls. I want it all. And I want them to want it all too.
Monday, July 28, 2008
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