TL;DR? How tech's changing the way we read

Some people worry that technology could be changing the way we read. So are we all becoming skimmers and headline grasping multi-taskers, losing our ability to concentrate on a long form article, or to read a whole book?! It's a topic tech journo Manoush Zomorodi gets into in the IRL podcast from Mozilla, in an episode called 'TL;DR' (an acronym for Too Long; Didn't Read) with journalist and author Derek Thompson, Ernie Smith of Tedium, and librarian Nancy Pearl.

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