Does your brain read or listen better?

你的大脑更擅长阅读还是倾听?

Round Table China

2025-08-14

23 分钟
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From dog-eared paperbacks to immersive audiobooks and cutting-edge VR experiences, we've never had so many ways to 'read.' But as the formats multiply, so do the questions. Does the medium reshape the meaning? Does how we consume stories fundamentally change how we experience them? Or in the end, does the magic remain the same? / Test papers distributed on train to make noisy kids quiet (16:47). On the show: Steve Hatherly, Niu Honglin & Yushun
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  • Discussion keeps the world turning.

  • This is Roundtable.

  • You're tuned in to Roundtable.

  • I'm Steve Hatherly, joined today by Ngo Hung Lin and Yushin.

  • coming up from your traditional paperbacks to audiobooks to vr headsets people have different ways that they like to read but with all of those different options what does it even mean to read anymore does the medium change the magic does it make any difference at all how we consume our reading material after that we've all been there That moment on public transportation when a voice,

  • a little voice, goes from, Mommy, I like trains, to full volume, I don't want to be here anymore!

  • That can happen in about half a second.

  • What happened?

  • You were in such a good mood.

  • Well,

  • cue the parental panic and cue the fellow passengers suddenly very interested in their headphones.

  • You know what, though?

  • One train attendant in China may have solved that problem for us all.

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  • And now.

  • For generations, reading meant eyes on a page, deciphering written words.

  • But in our increasingly digital world, that definition is totally expanding.