Sven Birkerts says computers are eroding our ability to read deeply. Internet speed discourages reflective reading of literature and we skip across oceans of information without diving deep. “We’ve reached a critical juncture in the transition from print culture to screen culture,” he says, and “We’re metamorphosing from individual and private people to fungible, Web-linked brain connectors in a bright, buzzy, gregarious info-hive.” He couldn’t be more wrong, declares one critic. – Salon