In the article “Reading and Thinking” author Dwight MacDonald provides criticism and disagreements with Henry Luce's idea of ​​“functional curiosity”. Luce developed the term “functional curiosity” defining it as people's desire to know the latest news happening around the world. On the other hand, MacDonald concludes that functional curiosity merely reinforces the reader's practice in reading rather than in providing invaluable information. He points out that literature today is lacking and inconsistent because there is no deep meaning in the texts. Modern printed literature is simply skimmed by the reader as nowadays the reader tends to avoid too much information that resists thinking in this way. Due to the new nature of printed materials, MacDonald sees today's reading behavior and the way people think as fragile and indifferent. I agree that our thinking has definitely changed as we spend less time on serious critical thinking and lose connections with and awareness of society. Students can easily lose their attention and concentration with easy access to such an incredibly rich wealth of information. With new technologies such as television, the Internet and social networks, people nowadays tend to multitask more often as they have easy access to a large amount of information. However, such easy access can sometimes be a distraction. The “Your Brain on Computers” study reports that heavy multitaskers perform up to 20% worse in most tests than the performance of light multitaskers. It is argued that the work efficiency of people who perform multiple tasks at the same time is significantly lower. The same goes for concentration. (Crovitz 353) As a result, they are not involved in the work process. Students tend to be easily distracted... halfway through the paper... according to search engine usage, people lose motivation to read and attention to think about the answer. (Crovitz 353) In Plato's Phaedrus, the Greek philosopher Socrates states that people who obtain information without proper education are ignorant as they only conceive the presumption of the answer instead of the wisdom needed to discover and understand the answer. (Carr 341) With such access to information, we disseminate information and expand human knowledge at a rapid pace. However, we lose our creativity, intelligence and spirit of inquiry. In conclusion, we see that the nature of printed literature has changed nowadays as has the way of thinking. We are losing our concentration, awareness and ability to think seriously. We are faced with negative effects such as cyberbullying and Internet manipulation. I think that's not the direction we should be moving forward.