{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Teleportation Device","description":"Humans have been reading for thousands of years, but ever since the invention of television, people have been worried that reading is in decline. The latest worry is that, even if the Internet has caused an uptick in the quantity of our reading, we're reading on screens instead of paper, and this seems to degrade the quality of our reading. On this episode, technology writer Clive Thompson talks about the history of reading as a technology, why we\u2019re worried about its future, and what happened when he tried to read War and Peace on his iPhone. Support Anxious Machine on Patreon  Subscribe (or write a review) in iTunes Links: Clive Thompson\u2019s essay about reading War and Peace on his iPhone Clive Thompson\u2019s essay about the novelty effect Clive Thompson\u2019s book  Smarter than You Think Hanna Rosin\u2019s  article for The Atlantic about children and screens  Amaranth Borsuk &amp;amp; Brad Bouse: Between Page and Screen Music:  Curious Process by Podington Bear  Oxygen Garden by Chris Zabriskie  Deeper by Phlox.s Rythn by Podington Bear Mensa by Podington Bear  Steppin Intro by Podington Bear  Program Reverie by Podington Bear  Euphoric by Podington Bear  Respiration by Podington Bear 88 by Podington Bear ","author_name":"Anxious Machine","author_url":"http:\/\/www.anxiousmachine.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/3713245\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/3713245"}