Mark Bauerlein response to Douglas Rushkoff

If we take the young man's statement seriously, the difference might be this, Doug: he really seems to think that he "read" the play. Back when I was in school as an English major, most everybody resorted to Cliff''s Notes once in a while, but we always understood that we hadn't actually read the play in doing so.

Does the young man's statement indicate that he reduces the existence of the play to a 5-minute message that he can "get"? Is this the direction of digital communication--so much toward information that all you need any more is the gist, the kernal, the core sense?