Nowadays, nobody has the time to read. For anti-social elements like me (as a former roommate put it ;)..) reading was and is the ultimate medium. Pick up a book and burrow away in your bed or where there are warm(hot in madras) sun rays landing on your back. Its been a while since I read a book too! I think e-books are a good solution for people who travel for about an hour to work. This would let you listen to something other than the same old songs on the radio. We have a lot of competing technology these days from the latest PSP- Playstation Portable to the earlier generation's Television. Well, as they say 'a picture is worth a thousand words' but how can a picture that provides the same information to one and all, surpass a book that can be interpreted in a million different ways. We visualize a book in different ways which allows growth of creativity and enhances our minds. Writing has also evolved into different forms - writing for soaps and sitcoms to games which have complex plots. I can understand that reading may have been sacrificed for other more active pass times like gaming where the session is interactive. But I can't seem to understand why people like watching movies better.
May be the explanation for the above behaviour is that the world is getting divided into 2 extremes - the active who like interactive sessions and the passive who are lazy to read also. There are of course cats on the wall like me.... Anyway something to ponder on.
Deepti
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