While tangentially related to RIM I think this article from The Times speaks
volumes about how technology has affected what we communicate and how we
absorb it

"Click, tweet, e-mail, twitter, skim, browse, scan, blog, text: the jargon
of the digital age describes how we now read, reflecting the way that the
very act of reading, and the nature of literacy itself, is changing.

The information we consume online comes ever faster, punchier and more
fleetingly. Our attention rests only briefly on the internet page before
moving incontinently on to the next electronic canapé.

Addicted to the BlackBerry, hectored and heckled by the next blog alert, web
link or text message, we are in state of Continual Partial Attention, too
bombarded by snippets and gobbets of information to focus on anything for
very long. Microsoft researchers have found that someone distracted by an
e-mail message alert takes an average of 24 minutes to return to the same
level of concentration."

http://bit.ly/2z89y6

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