Comments on: A Better Way To Read Through Technology? http://www.1001words.com/2007/11/a-better-way-to-read-through-technology.html We live in an age of forgetting. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:19:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Chip Chanko http://www.1001words.com/2007/11/a-better-way-to-read-through-technology.html#comment-327 Chip Chanko Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:32:00 +0000 http://www.1001words.com/2007/11/a-better-way-to-read-through-technology.htm#comment-327 My car stereo will scroll track and album names when my ipod is plugged in and I have a really hard time reading this way. Same with the CNN ticker...I can only take so much of it before I'm too tired to read any more. I think it takes less effort for us to read stationary text and that having to look to the left balances the strain on our eyeballs. <br/><br/>Having speakers implanted in our ears that deliver a stream of someone speaking everything we would otherwise read might be a much more efficient delivery mechanism. My car stereo will scroll track and album names when my ipod is plugged in and I have a really hard time reading this way. Same with the CNN ticker…I can only take so much of it before I’m too tired to read any more. I think it takes less effort for us to read stationary text and that having to look to the left balances the strain on our eyeballs.

Having speakers implanted in our ears that deliver a stream of someone speaking everything we would otherwise read might be a much more efficient delivery mechanism.

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