Are people getting better at reading? A deep read is an immersive, flow experience. But to engage in reading you have feel you have the time and focus to commit

Are people getting better at reading? A deep read is an immersive, flow experience. But to engage in reading you have feel you have the time and focus to commit to reading and then not be interrupted. I don't want for machine generated narrative, I want more time spent deep reading. I do way more scanning and skimming now than deep reading - authoritative source, credible, what's new, what's useful - it's all critical thinking and done as efficiently as I can make it. It feels like work. I always wonder if more structuring over the stuff that I read - entity and concept extraction, thesis extraction, separating facts from opinions, a topic-centered feed - would be better. I haven't found or built the right experience yet. To me, narrative generating models are interesting only as a step toward a better critical reading experience, and the win there would be generating useful abstractions that help one understand faster. Arguably, writing style is one such abstraction. Maybe there's potential in being able to generate readable narratives from things that people have a hard time describing, like datasets. Then the grail is business dashboards composed as sonnets.