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A new era has begun where almost every daily transaction is done by smart media from diverse work procedures, data search, learning, to relationship building, communication, entertainment and killing-time activities, etc. Actually, it is not that there is ‘nothing’ smart phone cannot do but the kind of ‘things possible only via smart phones’ have surrounded every modern day people just as air. M, Serres called the smart generation of today as the ‘thumb generation’ and said they thought with ‘two different brains’, rightfully recognizing the situation where smart devices already functioned as if a body part of the smart generation. For smart people living in a digitized daily environment, reading/writing is just natural and accustomed routine just as breathing. ‘Digital texts’ are brief articles containing daily thoughts on contemporary, practical issues in the form of letter writing for oratory, discussion or answer to others. Digital texts are actions of diverse conversations and joining others, similar to Socratic dialogues and Menippean satire. Serres viewed them as the ‘chatting of the thumb generation’, that is, the beauty of rumbling. This will be a key to the era of ‘reading 2.0’ where all of the books are connected to a single giant book. This is where the Renaissance of new reading/writing would begin, which we will explore from the perspective of humanities.