Every good thing can go bad.

I’ve been kept awake behind the wheel on many through the night drives by listening to a book on CD. Now, with the iPod, I can store reams of pages ready for listening whenever I hit the open road. My wife listens to books when she exercises. My son has an hour commute each way to school each day. He fills the time not by mind-numbing talk radio, but by listening to books on his iPod. These are great things.

So how can this go bad? I asked my son about some good PRINT books that he has lying around, and he told me that he is just having a hard time getting into them. He said, “I fear I’m losing my patience with print.”

Is it possible that the changing way we get our information these days is changing the very nature of the way we think? That of course has been the concern of Neil Postman and is an idea updated and explored in this Atlantic article.

Maybe I’m old fashioned. But there is something sad about growing impatient with print.

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