Bookish

I like to read. As the title says, I'm rather bookish. I have been since I was tiny. I have shelves line with the things. I have a pile of things I need to read next to my computer desk. I can spend hours in a book store just looking around. I read the two hours between when my train arrives in the morning and class starts.

My brother, not so much.

He's a gamer. He plays nonstop, hunched over a control with a headset over his ears, yelling at his friends. He can't wait to get home and finished with his homework so he can dive right back into his games. A handful of my coworkers are the same way.

I can understand where this is going. Video games are fun and I have found myself more often than not ignoring the hours flying by while playing. But I still have some concern for the new generation. They seem to have abandoned books completely in favor of visual immersion. That's all well and good, but when it gets to the point where words on a page are far too cumbersome to focus on, have we then lost the original immersion technology: Imagination and thought?