What you're mentioning has little to do with technology and nothing to do with attention span. Those books just don't give you anything you want. Well, why read

What you're mentioning has little to do with technology and nothing to do with attention span. Those books just don't give you anything you want. Well, why read them? I think microprocessors are great achievements, but I struggle to think how a work of fiction can be a great achievement. I don't think the world would be very different if neither of them had ever been written.