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"I don't read anymore; I just talk to people who have." — Dr. Tom Malloy, University of Utah

That's how Paul Hartzog begins an excellent post over at many2many.

"But the great thing about all this is that conversation gives us an incredible way of processing the world as we move into an age of relentless and omnipresent information," he writes. Yup. It has its advantages and disadvantages, of course, but it's what's happening.

Conversation doesn't just "process" information. It appropriates it — it's how we make it our own. But in conversation we appropriate ideas mutually with another, which is exactly how a culture of individuals manages to stay a culture.