Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Score one for the TV addicts?

A new neuroscience study reveals that books control people's minds and emotions in exactly the same way television does.

(From io9)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's interesting stuff- they are right about how novels used to be seen in much the same way as television- reading was considered an antisocial and indolent habit.

Holly said...

reading was considered an antisocial and indolent habit.

... it is! :)

Someday we'll have neural playback (a la Strange Days) or whatever, and suddenly TV will be so old skool and venerable...