The Gradual Decline of Reading in a World of Shrinking Attention Spans and Rising Use of Imagery

When was the last time you finished a newspaper article or a book, start to end?

Tell me the truth, cross your heart and hope to die and all of that: when was the last time you read something start to end? For that matter, when was the last time you ever read anything? And no, weather reports don’t count.

Also, have you started to notice how hard it is to focus on something for more than a few minutes at a time? Teenagers don’t coun…