What is the focus of a goldfish? 8 seconds. And this individual of the millennium “born (In the 1980s and 1990s, editor’s note) with constant connection and touch screen”? 10 minutes? 50 seconds? No. 9 seconds. This is what Google’s supercomputers were able to estimate. A building character that Bruno Patino chose to open his excellent essay Goldfish Civilization, followed by Hurricane jar (Grasset). Like them, militants (born between 1998 and 2003), but also all those who have succumbed to hyper-attachment, “We have become goldfish, locked in a jar of our screens, subject to the hilarity of our alarms and our instant messages.”. Caught between emails and stories, do younger generations still read “real” books?
First, young people like to read. In its latest study of young people’s reading habits and reading published earlier this year, the Center for the National Book (CNL) finds that 7-25 year olds…
Source: Le Figaro
