James Sosnoski: The Hyper-readers and their Reading Engines

When I finished reading the article, I got the sense that Sosnoski was embracing the fact that reading texts online is going to become a common habit. He did not bury himself in the debate of whether it was going to happen or not. He merely looked at the evidence around him and came to a conclusion.

Once Sosnoski came to the conclusion that online reading is going to be common and is common, he went in to detail about hyper reading and how it differs from reading a print-text. He discusses things such as skimming, imposing, filming, etc. He describes each of these elements as “techniques” used to read the information needed when searching for something specific on the web. For example, when someone uses a search engine to locate specific information, they are in all reality filtering, as you would when looking up something in a index of a print text. When you realize this, it is just one of those things were you think, “Huh, Sosnoski is right. We are doing that.”

Reading this article has enlightened me on techniques I use, sometimes blindly, while on the internet researching something or looking for particular information. Such as using a search engine, which I discussed above.