Links To Resources on the Future of Reading:

Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America, National Endowment of the Arts
The Future of Reading, Tom Peters, Library Journal, 11/01/2009
The Future of Reading, Jonah Lehrer, Wired Science
To Read Or Not to Read: A Question of National Importance, National Endowment of the Arts
Considering the Future of Reading: Lessons, Links and Thought Experiments, Katherine Schulten and Shannon Doyne, The Learning Network, NY Times
The Future of Reading, Rochester Institute of Technology 2010 Conference
The Institute for the Future of the Book

"[...] the computer as literary agent ultimately points beyond narrative and toward ergotic modes -- dialogic forms of improvisation and free play between the cyborgs that today's literate computer users (and their programs) have become. What we need in order to achieve this is not an automated playwright or narrator but simulated worlds with emergent intrigants, interesting enough to make real people want to spend time and creative energy there."
-- Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext (info)