This document summarizes the history of reading and the development of technology related to reading over thousands of years. It touches on the evolution of written languages from Sumerian logographs to the Greek alphabet. It then focuses on the development of e-readers and digital reading technologies from the 1970s to present day. It raises issues about how technology is changing reading behaviors and the publishing industry. The document advocates that while technology changes how we read, the act of reading and culture will continue to exist in new forms.
7. Spaces between
appear about 900 AD
“I find television very educating. Every time
somebody turns on the set, I go into the
other room and read a book.”
28. “My fear is that these
technologies are
infantilising the brain
into the state of small
children who are
attracted by buzzing
noises and bright
lights, who have a
small attention span
and who live for the
moment.”
Prof. Susan Greenfield
59. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
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