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The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart - Alexis Madrigal - Technology
Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone's favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth.Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters.
The Neuroscience of Your Brain On Fiction
Science fiction and fantasy when the awesome has become ordinary
We live in a world where devices that were recently considered the domain of a future yet-to-come now live in our pockets and backpacks. This isn't cause for creators of fiction to rest on their laurels, however; it's actually an important opportunity, one that Alyssa Rosenberg of Think Progress says the SyFy network is missing in its switch to fantasy-themed programming following the demise of Battlestar Galactica . While television is often driven by cultural and programming trends, it's hard to argue with Rosenberg's point that the network is doing viewers a disservice by relying on the well-worn instead of using today's reality as the jumping-off point for exploring new visions of our collective future.