The final perquisite of the third reading life is the ability to transform information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. Indeed, just as Margaret Levi has suggested for the basis of altruism, the combining of our highest intellectual and empathic powers27 with our capacity for virtue may well be why our species has continued. If these capacities are endangered, if good readers are endangered, so are we all. If they are supported, we will have not only an antidote to the weaknesses of a digital culture but a key to propelling our culture’s greatest potential into the future: wise
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