Reading to Have Read

"Reading to have Read" by Ian Bogost is about how humans have become so incorporated with the media and its infinite information that they don’t have enough time to read as much as they want to read. This article is about a new reading software has been created to help get through all the content we want to read and it is called Spritz. In this article it goes on to explain how this speed reading technology is trying to downplay or even eliminate the need for reading comprehension. We have so much content thrown at us each day and as much as we want to read it we don’t have time to. “Comprehension isn’t a lost virtue so much as an unshouldered burden”, is said in this article to show how much our generation is changing. The ways the next generation will “learn”, may be a mindless experience.

Today's society is fixed upon effecieny and quickness. This article is an example of that theory in use. Spritz is an online tool that helps you read entire books about three times faster than the average speed. But that is at the cost of comprehension because the tool does not allow you to comprehend what you just read but just for you to say you read it. Key words and phrases such as sacrificing comprehension for convenience, speed, force fed, and lost virture emphasize the evolution of technology and how it is used for efficiency now and not for comprehension. How reading is evolving to become a thing of the past and technology is erradicating reading as an art is the main focus of the article and that's why we chose it.