Reading is a true skill that all kids must have when going through school. Not being able to read really holds you back in many ways. It is useful for so many things around the world. Thats why we are reading as soon as we enter Kindergarten, (and for some kids its even longer) However, the world around us is changing in drastic ways. The early stages of technology are shooting through the roof and only improving from here. Most people now are just reading what they want to off of their phones or tablets. It started about 10 years ago when amazon came out with the Kindle. That was the first big step into reading over a screen. After the kindle started coming out, buying paperback books started to go down tremendously.
Do we need books? yes, absolutely, if we didn’t read about things then we would be so unprepared and left in the dark. It iOS very important to stay up to date on current events and write ups and new books. With today’s modern technology though, most of that reading is done off of social media and off of our screens, rarely do we pick up a book anymore hoping to better ourselves for the immediate future.
Our generation is the first group that was born into technology like this, with the smart phone and the Smart TV’s and computers and also the kindle. My parents still mostly read paperback books because that’s what they know, they grew up on paper books so they like to stick with it. It is completely opposite with our group however, we are starting to grow up on all of these technology devices and we will most likely continue using those until we die, because of comfort. Not because we know it’s better, just simply because we are comfortable using that equipment and we tend to gravitate more towards the way we are comfortable with. In multiple years, there will be something else that comes along that blows all of this under the water. Something that is very convenient and at the same time just better than everything else before it when it comes to technology. I’m equally excited as I am scared. Technology is a very intimidating aspect of life that we can’t let slip our minds. Books have drastically changed over the years from paperbacks to completely on technology now. We buy most of our textbooks online now just for example, but as technology changes, surely we will too.
Mass Media and American Life 