From the course: Bored and Brilliant (Blinkist Summary)

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Great convenience

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- [Narrator] Blink number two, technology offers great convenience but this convenience comes at a price. Take a walk down the street or spend a few minutes on the subway or a bus and you'll see them. Hoards of people with their heads lowered, each gazing at the screen of some device. Sure smartphones and tablets are great, you're probably using one right now. But they're also altering the way we think and act. For one, we no longer read or process information as we used to. When investigating why people were having difficulty getting immersed in books or other long texts, writer Mike Rosenwald made a discovery. The internet has altered the way we read. Pre-internet people read linearly. Today our reading is utterly nonlinear. We scroll and skim and follow links to other stories and all this skipping, skimming and scrolling is effecting our ability to engage with long stretches of text. An ironic case and point is…

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