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April 15th 2012

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On Friday I re-blogged Alex Madrigal’s article from the Atlantic showing a chart of the percentage of Americans reading books over time:

http://emergentfutures.tumblr.com/post/21017030486/the-next-time-someone-says-the-internet-killed

The original article (which is linked to in the re-blog) shows the chart that I have attached to this post

This had received 1057 notes in less than 48 hours which got me thinking so I have written a longer piece on what it means it over at www.futuristpaul.com

Posted at 9:33am and tagged with: reading, tech, technology,.

On Friday I re-blogged Alex Madrigal’s article from the Atlantic showing a chart of the percentage of Americans reading books over time:
http://emergentfutures.tumblr.com/post/21017030486/the-next-time-someone-says-the-internet-killed
The original article (which is linked to in the re-blog) shows the chart that I have attached to this post
This had received 1057 notes in less than 48 hours which got me thinking so I have written a longer piece on what it means it over at www.futuristpaul.com

Emergent Futures Tumblelog

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