I think this phenomenon is more with the younger set. Where I live, most of the book stores have gone out of business - just Borders is left and an odd store here and there. They all seem to sell more music, videos and gifts than they do books, though.
It is even in the technology. When we were younger, you had to listen to music on either tape or vinyl records. The means of skipping around between songs was clumsy at best. So we mostly listened to the whole thing once started. With the advent of CD players and now Ipods, it is very interesting to watch the young ones. They switch between songs constantly and rarely listen to the whole song - just catching the 20-30 seconds that is really 'cool' to them. Sound bites online and on cell phones, video clips online and on ipods, all encourage short 'bursts' of information. Since this goes on pretty heavily, making your burst stand out is tricky. Food for thought. -- Bruce Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 8:44:07 AM, you wrote: g> Well if you watch TV instead of reading. As for no one reading, how do g> all those book stores stay in business. However, I will agree that there g> are a lot of so called technical books that kind of give you g> ionformation that way, and without the sound bites. g> Bruce Dayton wrote: >> Didn't this already start to happen when Velvia came on the scene to >> give us that over-the-top punchy color in slides? I'm sure our >> viewing mediums have had some impact, but so has our social >> environment. Today, information is thrown at us in a very fast, >> concentrated way. All the media types do it - short, fast >> commercials, movies instead of books, etc. So to stand out from the >> crowd - there has to be something catchy. Photography is just a >> follow on to that. >> >> Some of my thoughts... >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
