How do we read in the electronic age?

Can you still study? This is the worry of the previous generation.

Compared to print media, we read more about the display of TVs and computers. What we read more is the image, not the text. Most of us are not interested in so-called ink-stained books, and even think it's a bit dirty. Thoreau hopes that we will dedicate the morning time to the Iliad and give it to the Bible. But every morning, after we tried to open our eyes, we turned on the computer and went to the "Sina.com" to see today's news. This is a waste of time, and this information is digested with the end of the breakfast. However, we seem to be unable to give up this futile effort, because reading news seems to have become an important way for us to establish our own age. We are afraid that we will suddenly be forgotten by this crazy world.

Reading is changing, and we are still not sure about its pros and cons. The rate at which the text of the print appears, and the degree to which the typeface is irritating to our eyes and brain, proves that it is a kind of thinking, giving the brain enough to deconstruct it. Electronic media seems to subvert all of this, jumping words, constantly appearing pictures, is it inhibiting our thinking mechanism? An experiment on television has made us worry about those who are nurtured by TV. Two scientists in Canada talked about the brains of people watching TV and connected with test instruments and concluded that television is primarily talking to our bodies rather than our minds. Specifically, the human mind needs at least half a second to provide proper sensory closure for complex stimuli. The TV refused to give us this half second. Media research expert Klugman thought that in the 1970s, books were communicated with our left brain, while television communicated with our right brain, while the left brain was usually the part responsible for reason, and television made the rational part of our minds. Sleep. Therefore, for children who are used to TV pictures, reading the print media is painful and almost unbearable, and it cannot adapt to our habit of beating.

Television makes us superficial, and in order to cater to our short-term attention, television programs must abandon depth. Television is a colloquial language that is closer to our daily lives and more trivial. We grow up with something like "Jingzhu Gege", which is a happy but worrying growth process. And then, the computer will cultivate our new reading habits. This is an unprecedentedly powerful library in the world, and you can find a wide variety of materials. They are jagged and you don't have enough time to identify it. Children smaller than us will rely on these complex materials to grow.

It is said that the computer is a reversal of the TV. The computer is interactive. It does not circulate information in a one-way manner like TV. It can make users react. Thus, we are returning to the spoken culture from the dominant literacy culture. The communication master Marshall McLuhan further infers that in the future electronic society, ignorance becomes a valuable commodity for the information system controlled by spoken language. Because ignorants are more malleable, they have no restrictions on past norms, so they have more room to play and make it easier to learn new technologies.

The reading we are used to may be about to be cast aside. Although, we may still be lying in bed under the dim light, holding a beautifully printed book to enjoy the joy of printed text. However, we may have to admit that this moving picture may be as close to us as the antiques that have disappeared. And for our children, we may be able to blame them with confidence, why not read well, why not read classical classics?