谁也无法否认,阅读在当代遇到了重大危机。就像一切重大危机一样,它的表面现象不是萧条,而是极度扩张。网络上的阅读那么方便、那么丰富、那么快捷,越来越多的人沉迷其中,兴高采烈地告别了那个需要排队借书、细心摘录、长久品味的传统阅读时代。这种告别,是一种全球趋势。我手边正好有美国《未来学家》杂志2009年11/12月号上刊登的一篇文章,标题为 No one can deny that reading has encountered a major crisis in the contemporary era. Like all major crises, its apparent appearance is not a depression, but an extreme expansion. Reading on the Internet so convenient, so rich, so fast, more and more people indulge them, happily bid farewell to the need to line up the library, carefully excerpt, long-term taste of the traditional reading era. This farewell is a global trend. At hand, I have an article in the journal, Future Science magazine, November / December 2009, titled