gaming 1, reading 0

Cool, short Article in this week's New Yorker about how current pop culture -- namely computer games & tv shows -- are more cognitively interactive than, um, reading books.
I'm so glad I spent my youth playing Sim City Classic instead of reading Tolstoy.

Also from another New Yorker article about concert tours & Metallica:

[I]n an era of file-sharing and iPod-stealing, ... the ways in which artists make money have grown more old-fashioned. The value of songs falls, and the value of seeing an artist sing them rises, because that experience can’t really be reproduced.