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1. Jay Reatard (7)
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Despite the digital revolution, the act of reading hasn’t changed very much over the years.

Except it has changed. The very article the above quote is lifted from is littered with hyperlinks. To stumble upon links in a otherwise linear text changes the text, it creates new threads for the reader to follow, it transforms the text(s) to a rhizome.

And I could mention the plethora of electronic literature which in addition to changing the way we read, challenges the concept of reading itself.

(…)the company literally rents you a DVD and a DVD player, with your computer, tablet or Google TV as the remote control. Unlike the other streaming movie services, Zediva doesn’t turn a movie into a file on its servers that it can serve to as many users as care to see it at once.
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Zediva’s servers have DVD drives and actual DVDs. So when you rent a movie, that disc goes out of circulation until you release it back to the company, just like in one of those increasingly rare real-world video stores.