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August 26, 2009

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Reading Revolutions

Clive Thompson talks to the Stanford Study of Writing’s Andrea Lunsford about the astonishing decline super-tumescence of reading and writing:

“I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization,” she says. For Lunsford, technology isn’t killing our ability to write. It’s reviving it