Speed Reading Apps
Google succeeded in its mission of organizing the information of the world. So it's now our move: how do we consume more of that information? Speed reading apps claim to help do that, at least on our phones. Many criticize such apps saying that promote reading without any comprehension. But were we really reading and comprehending much even before these apps, asks Alex Balk : “Basically nobody reads anything, the few people who do read things don't read all of it, and the two people who do read all of it are basically the ones tasked with checking for typos, so they are not actually retaining anything anyway.” Harsh, you say? Balk rubs it in further: “You might as well be lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna for all the actual comprehension and retention going on.” Don't bother Googling the Latin sounding parts of the lines above. The phrase has the appearance of an intelligent Lat...