Wednesday, April 14, 2010

blog 13

Dr Wilson has been studding this situation of books being absolute for some time his opinion is “Books have been supplanted by computers and hand –held video players as a source of mobile entertainment, resulting in the decline of reading for pleasure. The digital revolution has wrought changes at least as important as the printing pass. The early 1980’s saw a technical revolution that may have changed the pictures today” (Wilson). In the 21 century most of the youth today’s does not like to read books. Reading has become absolute because all of the technology around when I was young the only major distraction was T.V. and maybe video games. Now you have computers that are way advance now growing up people did not be on the computer all day, they did what they had to do and got off, now you have face book and twitter and other programs that keep this younger generation occupied. Just to keep up with technology people have tried to make stuff to make reading fun and to get the young ones interested in reading but so far that has failed with a lot of the younger generation. The only thing that the young people like to read is face book statuses and twit updates and taxing between each other. The question is what will happen to reading if this happens how will it become interesting? Will it become interesting again, will the younger generation start to get back into reading like my mother loved it when she was young. As we go on in life things are really starting to get high-tech will reading really become absolute?

1 comment:

  1. This is a valid question, Jamaal, and very troubling for teachers. It should be troubling to you, too, because your generation will definitely see the consequences.

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