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

"It is important to remember that any abstract story system ultimately refers to the sorrows and pleasures of human life and that the story of any event depends heavily on who is doing the telling. A storytelling system that further calcifies the distortions of stereotypical thinking would be as destructive as the most bigoted and bloodthirsty bard. We humans already do enough mechanical thinking without enlisting machines to help us."
-- Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (info)