So I am not sure that it is the culture that’s influencing the kind of content, so much as it is the medium. What we need, then, are digital devices that demand the same focus as books, and can wrap a reader up in them.
Kyle Baxter makes the argument that it is the medium of digital devices, not our culture, that has produced our current state of shorter, shallower content. I agree, and believe this aligns with what my friend James wrote back in July in his article “Skimmers and Goldfish.”
The mediums we create as a society in-turn create who we are a society. Remember, the printing press turned us into a literate society.
