Today’s world is a world of technology and everything around us is getting digital. No wonder people have started to think that in no time modern technology and ebooks will fully take place of the traditional reading methods such as from a newspaper or a magazine. This essay will argue why despite of the immense benefits of the conventional forms of reading, the new digital forms taking over will be much more advantageous.
Some people have pointed out that routine newspaper and magazine reading will soon be taken over completely by the advanced digital era technology and ebooks. The biggest reason of the same is the current requirement of our society to go green. The government in almost all the countries is coming forward and taking an initiative to save the trees which are being cut in a huge number in order to make more and more paper. Not only the electronic modes of reading and studying shall serve the purpose by reducing the production of paper by a humongous amount but will save a lot of time for people along with helping them to increase their reading habit as in just one click on their phones they can read the news of around the world whether they are travelling in a metro or taking a short tea break. For instance, if a person gets only 20 minutes free after a meeting in his office, it is much easier to just take the phone out and go through a couple of pages while walking or sitting idle instead of making sure that he always carries a book or a newspaper wherever he goes. So most people these days prefer online sources rather than opting for the hard copied subscriptions.
There are some other people who believe that despite the environmental as well as handy benefits provided by the upcoming technologies, the standard methods of gaining knowledge or learning through a DailyTimes or a Forbes can never be totally replaced. It is considered that reading from a newspaper or a magazine needs much more concentration than reading from an online source as most people take a separate time out to read and are focused completely only on the paper at that moment and hence are less distracted which can help understand a situation better and give time to think over an idea even and create an opinion about it. Additionally, it is considered that more the concentration, better the retention power. A research paper published in India, mentioned a survey which showed that the vocabulary of the people who learnt the words from an English newspaper was far better than people who read only through modern resources. That is why usual reading and learning techniques are superior to the advanced electronic sources of information.
To summerize, this essay argues that modern technology or ebooks may completely put back traditional ways of reading even if they were better methods of learning. I completely agree to the idea as it is the people who have to take an initiative and cope up with the upcoming era of advanced technology which can help us save our time, improve our reading habits even in an extremely busy schedule and on top of it help us save trees that in a longer run can save our planet.
Today
’s world is a world of
technology
and everything around us is getting digital. No wonder
people
have
started
to
think
that in no
time
modern
technology
and
ebooks
will
fully
take place of the traditional
reading
methods such as from a
newspaper
or a magazine. This essay will argue why
despite of
the immense benefits of the conventional forms of
reading
, the new digital forms taking over will be much more advantageous.
Some
people
have pointed out that routine
newspaper
and magazine
reading
will
soon
be taken
over
completely
by the advanced digital era
technology
and
ebooks
. The biggest reason of the same is the
current
requirement of our society to go green. The
government
in almost all the countries is coming forward and taking an initiative to
save
the trees which are being
cut
in a huge number in order to
make
more and more paper. Not
only
the electronic modes of
reading
and studying shall serve the purpose by reducing the production of paper by a humongous amount
but
will
save
a lot of
time
for
people
along with helping them to increase their
reading
habit as in
just
one click on their phones they can read the news of around the world whether they are travelling in a metro or taking a short tea break.
For instance
, if a person
gets
only
20 minutes free after a meeting in his office, it is much easier to
just
take the phone out and go through a couple of pages while walking or sitting idle
instead
of making sure that he always carries a book or a
newspaper
wherever he goes.
So
most
people
these days prefer online sources
rather
than opting for the
hard
copied subscriptions.
There are
some
other
people
who
believe that despite the environmental
as well
as handy benefits provided by the upcoming
technologies
, the standard methods of gaining knowledge or learning through a
DailyTimes
or a Forbes can never be
totally
replaced. It
is considered
that
reading
from a
newspaper
or a magazine needs much more concentration than
reading
from an online source as most
people
take a separate
time
out to read and
are focused
completely
only
on the paper at that moment and
hence
are less distracted which can
help
understand a situation
better
and give
time
to
think
over an
idea
even and create an opinion about it.
Additionally
, it
is considered
that more the concentration,
better
the retention power. A research paper published in India, mentioned a survey which
showed
that the vocabulary of the
people
who
learnt
the words from an English
newspaper
was far
better
than
people
who
read
only
through modern resources.
That is
why usual
reading
and learning techniques are superior to the advanced electronic sources of information.
To
summerize
, this essay argues that modern
technology
or
ebooks
may
completely
put back traditional ways of
reading
even if they were
better
methods of learning. I
completely
agree
to the
idea
as it is the
people
who
have to
take an initiative and cope up with the upcoming era of advanced
technology
which can
help
us
save
our
time
,
improve
our
reading
habits even in an
extremely
busy schedule and on top of it
help
us
save
trees that in a longer run can
save
our planet.