Reading redefined!

[Angrboda]

Scientists have studied RSVP for years, and it does appear to bypass the speed limit imposed by eye movements during normal reading. RSVP technology is the most promising way scientists have yet found to speed up reading.

But there's another check on reading speed that Spritz can't do anything about: our ability to comprehend what we're reading. When we read really fast — especially in complex or difficult material — our understanding of the text suffers. (Recall the old Woody Allen joke: He speed-read War and Peace, and came away with the insight that "it's about Russia.")

http://theweek.com/article/index/258243/...king-about