People Who Can Still Read Will Rule the World

A recent essay in The Atlantic tells us what most of us have already surmised: reading is dead, and it’s not coming back. In “The Age of Reading Is Over,” we learn that not only are fewer people reading long-form prose for pleasure, but soon they will permanently lose the ability to do so. The scroll, the digital cave, has trapped young brains and is atrophying their attention spans early so that they will not be able to get through a novel later on.