Media Mindfulness

Could this be the future of reading? ZAP Reader takes your text and flashes it quickly so you don’t need to move your eyes. This is a little like the idea I had when I was a kid to take a “book pill” to save the time it takes to read. I don’t know if I can get used to reading like this, but I could be conditioned to, just like Alex de Large in A Clockwork Orange. My one complaint about this utility is that it takes your text and processes at the ZAP Reader site. I’d like to see it as a standalone that generates the text right in your Web page like an embedded object (such as the YouTube video in this post). But, hey, I think it’s cool. But like eating ice cream too fast, it kinda pinches my brain too.