read. Does the content of what we are reading in our present milieu provide us sufficient background knowledge both for the particular demands of life in the twenty-first century and for the formation of the deep-reading brain circuit? We seem to be moving as a society from a group of expert readers with uniquely personal, internal platforms of background knowledge to a group of expert readers who are increasingly dependent on similar, external servers of knowledge. I want to understand the consequences and costs of losing these uniquely formed internal sources of knowledge without losing
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