I have forgotten how to read
I don't know why he writes so universally.<p>>"digital technologies are training us to be more conscious of and more antagonistic toward delays of all sorts."<p>Indeed and this is why I read: I just don't have the patience for video, much less (shudder) audio.  With a book there's no gap between word and image, and the book flows at the speed I want (I can always skip ahead, or linger, or jump back to that previous spot).  While a video is forcably linear (not to mention all the buffering, startup delays, and ads).<p>A tweetstorm requires so much cognitive overhead to follow (since each one is a discrete sentence or two with a large gap to move your eye down to the next one).  You have to maintain so much context from the previous tweet while searching for the next one it's hard to actually absorb anything.<p>Frankly the biggest problem with reading is bingeing.  You come up for air hours later with a crick in your neck and wonder where the day went.