Dear Technology Review:

A letter that might be published in August 2025, although I sent it in in June of 2009. Sigh. Things sometimes get lost in the mail.

Dear Editor,

In a recent editor's note by Jason Pontin in the April-May 2009 magazine noted that newspapers and
magazines will be around in the future, but perhaps
in different forms. I agree.

And I also wonder if in the future we
might need a new word to differentiate the kind of reading we do
online (or on computer or Kindle screens) from the kind of reading we
do on paper surfaces.

I have heard a few new terms being bandied about
on the Internet: screening, browsing, perusing, scanning. Reading is
reading, of course. But we might not be "reading" the new newspapers
and magazines of the future. We might be "screening" them.

Danny Bloom
AUGUST 21, 2025 [posting here from the future]