According to Clive Thompson, Twitter, texting, and other miniature versions of communication may actually be helping us comprehend things in the long term. Our need for the New and Now is constantly be satiated (although is that need ever truly filled?), while our desire for knowledge is met through "long take" blogs and essays which can be found online. Most major technology providers recognize that readers want to be able to READ, and not get distracted by ads and other nonsense."Which..." he says, "we are.We talk a lot, then we dive deep."
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/st_thompson_short_long/
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