numericcitizen
numericcitizen

Writing Shouldn’t Be Hard

We now live in a world of multimodal communications, and how we communicate is changing. The omnipresence of devices in our lives — smartphones to computers, means most of our conversations and communications happen through text. We have replaced so much of our face-to-face interaction with the written word. Teams, Slack and Discords, are part of our daily lives now. As the volume of text in our lives increases, we need tools that help facilitate and perhaps improve how we write and how fast we write.

Am I alone in having the feeling that people no longer read?

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@numericcitizen no … no you are not.

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paulcraig901
paulcraig901

@numericcitizen It depends. There’s definite fatigue when it comes to reading online text, certainly exacerbated by the aforementioned tools. Short form print seems to be in decline. Books? There are more books being purchased and read than ever before.

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paulcraig901
paulcraig901

@paulcraig901 @numericcitizen I work in digital print technology. Book printers are booming and have been for a while. There’s not nearly enough production capacity in North America. Production times are, by past standards, insane. What was once weeks is now months.

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