Epistemological implications

38. Epistemological Changes

Deliberate and careful data analysis and critical thinking may fade. Quick informational accessing and processing will increase. The IMAGE may dominate
rather than content.

*"Is our children learning?"

*Both reading and the nature of our senses change

*Study links bad test scores with decline in reading

Study Question:

The reading notes: “What’s really being read? Not words rolling off light tables or books as soundscapes, but the eye of human flesh itself. Seduced by electronic reading as a packaged consumer product, the eye is externalized in the transcendent form of a light-object, a sound, a liquid consumer graphic, a simulacrum of ocular perception.”

The question is: what does the “eye of human flesh” mean?
It DOES NOT MEAN learning to read in a different way, with the whole body.

So what does it mean? [see quoted paragraph above for a number of very specific clues]. Keep your answer to no more than 2 short sentences.

Want to learn more?
Lanham: The electronic word