The future of language is linked both to the sustained efforts by writers to find those words that direct us to their hard-won thought and to the sustained efforts by readers to reciprocate by applying their best thought to what is read. I worry that we are one quick step removed from recognizing the beauty in what is written. I worry that we are even closer to the stripping away of complex thoughts when they do not fit the memory-enfeebling restriction on the number of characters used to convey them. Or when they are buried in the last, least read, twentieth page of a Google search.
