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No, the World Is Not Ending

By Tom Fletcher

The New Yorker reports that reading will soon be extinct. There's a lot in the article to ponder (only 11% can contrast two editorials' view points?!), but I think it neglects one possible explanation: the rise of reading in the workplace. As the economy has become more white-collar and services-oriented, there's more reading at work. Think of all the (pointless) emails people read daily that they never read before 1990. It is possible people don't read at home because they're sick of reading from their workday. For example, I'll occasionally read a book when I come home from work. But far more often, televised sports triumph after a day of reading briefs, laws, articles, opinions, etc., etc.

So maybe there's cause for hope. Otherwise, my daily newspaper's going to be a lot more than a buck in twenty years.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on December 18, 2007 (boomark / email).