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Thanks, Gutenberg - but we're too pressed for time to read

• danw 19y ago
  It's interesting to see that learning to read was responsible for increasing the age of entering adulthood from 7 to 14. It seems in developed countries this is being pushed up to the early 20's, after graduation from higher education. Will the web have an effect on this trend?
• mhb 19y ago
  Silly. Why would anyone think that people's behavior while doing research on the web would be any different from their interaction with a library card catalog? Should we have concluded that people didn't have time to read because we observed them thumb through index cards, write things down and then scuttle over to a different drawer?