Blog — what we lose when we stop reading

We are living in an age of acceleration: acceleration of technology, of communication, of productivity, of consumption, and of attention. We are on an information treadmill, fed an unlimited diet of notifications, images, headlines, summaries, messages, comments and opinions. This often leaves very limited opportunity for reading and a deeper form of reading. The question, then becomes whether reading still has space to exist as a deep practice, or whether it too is becoming fragmented by the conditions of the world around it. At its shallowest, reading is the simple act of decoding words on a page. At its deepest,...