Deep Reading
Will Online Speed Deplete Analytic Thought?
Maryanne Wolf
Using Marshall McLuhan’s centenary, Wolf asked in 2011 what a speed-biased medium does to a brain still building its reading circuit. The questions she raised shaped her next decade of work.
The human brain was never meant to read. Not text, not papyrus, not computer screens, not tablets. There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading.
— Maryanne Wolf, The Guardian
Read the full essay at The Guardian.
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