This book may hold the record for most time passed between purchase and reading. And it may be unfair to judge a book I bought in 2012 that was written in 2007 by 2023 standards. Specifically the predictions about the far flung future of 2020s. Oh you sweet summer child.
I'm torn because the research Wolf presents in this book is absolutely fascinating and the worries that this book presents about reading and the kind of thinking it allows...I mean, she talks about Socrates and then does the Socrates thing "this time my fears for new media are FOUNDED!"
But on what? I feel like I have become very skeptical about arguments around the nature of media consumption that are about form rather than content. But also the entire rise and fall of Twitter happened between when this book was written and when I read it so IDK anymore.