Reading popular tech magazines and hi-tech magazines online saves lots of time. No one has the time to proceed through each of the scientific journals and read papers on every subject. Research papers are produced now in such mass quantity, and frequently universities and researchers are doing exactly the same forms of studies getting similar results, and all of their papers is published in another or different journal.The other day someone had given me a slight critique and told me that the data I had on various subjects had not been as good as his because he read the actual scientific journals, and I only browse the tech magazines summaries. That isn't exactly true, I read both, but the summary type articles in a higher percentage of course. Okay so, let's explore this thought for a second shall we?First, there is absolutely no way that one individual can read all of the scientific journals in all the different areas of science. Therefore by him only reading the scientific articles and the ones journals he could be limited in the amount of information he consumes. Further, if I read and scan a huge selection of tech magazines summaries per day I can follow all the areas of science, and anything notable that catches the attention of a science writer. Indeed, in explaining this to my acquaintance he dismissed my notion, but I also told him that I could always research the scientific research in the Journal if I read something that I wanted to pursue further.Now then, when you are working in an extremely limited niche of science then perhaps you get aggravated reading a few of the tech magazines summaries. Usually the writers get it wrong, or don't grasp the topic they're writing about. And because you know a lot concerning the individual niche subject material it is possible to spot mistakes right away. I noted that those research folks often leave comments explaining what sort of popular magazine science writer first got it wrong, and what the paper actually says, and what the study indeed means.Still, to get into that discussion and debate, that is also online in those popular magazine science articles, you have to go and read them, and read the comments at the bottom. When you read a scientific journal, you might or may not obtain the follow up comments before next issue. It appears the tech articles certainly are a better solution to communicate through summarizing. I'm sure even though you read actual journal articles you will admit that you do a lot of skipping and skimming as time is valuable, and that means you are actually only reading be summary, conclusion, and abstract anyway - so what's the difference?For those folks that need to learn a lot about a lot of things, it appears to me that reading these summaries in the favorite magazines or in the web news is just about the better strategy to use. So, The Work in Progress Report dismiss the critique of these that are not of the same view. Please consider all this and think onto it.Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is really a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the web Think Tank;