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The problem is: We just don't do whole things anymore.
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- Brien Gorham on 15 Mar 11
  
  The writer doesn't account for Amazon's market dominance or the rise of e-readers and digital downloads.
  
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We care more about the parts and less about the entire. We are into snippets and smidgens and clips and tweets. We are not only a fragmented society, but a fragment society
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- Brien Gorham on 15 Mar 11
  
  This is an absurdly broad assumption. We have access to more bits and pieces; it doesn't mean we don't construct these bits into greater wholes.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is an absurdly broad assumption. We have access to more bits and pieces; it doesn't mean we don't construct these bits into greater wholes.</div>
  
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And the result: What we gain is the knowledge — or the illusion of knowledge — of many new, different and variegated aspects of life. What we lose is still being understood.
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- Brien Gorham on 15 Mar 11
  
  Another baseless assumption: other studies show that people are writing and reading longer and more in-depth pieces on line, in part because of a social media culture that encourages blurb thinking.
  
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RinkWorks, an entertainment website, serves up Book-A-Minute classics, which is basically a
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- Brien Gorham on 15 Mar 11
  
  "Entertainment website" - it's comedy, not a literature replacement.
  
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On Monday, the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported that nearly half of all adults — 47 percent — get some of their local news and information on mobile computing devices. We are receiving our news in kibbles and bits, sacrificing context and quality for quickness and quantity.
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- Brien Gorham on 15 Mar 11
  
  Reading online does not mean reading for quickness. See above note.
  
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Hulu — sites specializing in abbreviated material
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- Brien Gorham on 15 Mar 11
  
  Hulu does have short clips, but most people use Hulu to watch its FULL LENGTH programs, of which there are an abundance.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Hulu does have short clips, but most people use Hulu to watch its FULL LENGTH programs, of which there are an abundance.</div>
  
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