I feel like I should read Impro again (for the fourth time.) It truly is a great book, even if you never expect to do one second of acting.
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I often think of the passage where he talks about the assertion that children have a short attention span, and observes that it is BORED children who have a short attention span; interested children can devote hours to a task that that might bore an adult.
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there's some interesting research on the different types of brains that develop from reading and from computers. Computer brains of ppl who didn't develop reading brains are bad at narrative and certain types of empathy, as I recall.
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(obviously more to eat than reading/computers. The luminaries tended to like very traditionally crafty schools.)
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I strongly suspect that screens that glow is part of the problem. It taps into the fascination with fire we selected for.
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I think you might be right there. An ordinary, non-backlit Kindle feels pretty much like an electronic book, not the computer that it actually is.