When we were young, the children of my generation had the number of contents to enrich our very limited brain and yet it was tremendously higher than those of the previous generation. This trend is probably maintained since the arrival of the industrial revolution and Each child stage has a much wider and varied number of stimuli than that of its predecessors.
An article recently read in Microsiervos indicated that it seems that, to current parents, it happens to us that we get used to looking for information quickly by looking through the lines of a text and we are left with specific keywords or concepts about what we need to know and finally we will remember. Although nothing is mentioned in the article I imagine that for today's children these things have to be happening now and our children are able to watch television, attend the computer and read physical books or tablets. So his ability to stimulate his brain I think exceeds what we had at his age and of course will condition them in the future because they will read in a similar way, filtering concepts, looking for the content they contribute and moving on to something else quickly.
So the readings that we used to do when we were little, in the absence of anything better, our children will probably not do them and will do them in an interrupted way over time while doing several things at the same time.
In addition the works for children that are made today are part of a transmedia that make reading is one more part and not the most important. In my time you could read a novel, of course adventures, and then you would discover that in addition, there was a film about it (typically those that they put on Saturdays at noon on Spanish television).
So our children are configuring their mental scheme to do several things at once, have the ability to follow a story on written pages, on computers or consoles with video games, on tablets with interactive books, in movies with 3D movies, etc.
Reading for digital natives will not be like ours, quiet, quiet, serene, by the window, warm in winter, or by the pool or terrace in summer. It seems to me that everything will be very different and that they will read and enjoy the pleasure of reading in another way.
And authors who are able to respond to that need to read, entertain and enjoy will succeed, and in fact they are already doing it.
