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I agree with both of your comments. The popularity of television, motion pictures, and YouTube and other videos has led to a reduction in reading anything longer than one paragraph by many people. The difficulty with videos of vocal speech compared to writing is that it is difficult to search for content, carefully check for errors, or understand complex content. Graphic content (charts, graphs, and photographs) can help in some cases, but written text is still better (in my option) for many types of discourse.
At least Wikipedia and dictionaries are both text-based. And email is still very important, both for personal and business communication. I agree that some are moving away from email for personal communication, but the ability to send complex content to specific people is still very useful.
Bill
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