Norman Lear Talks New Book With Opie & Jim Norton

At 92-years-old, Norman Lear sat with Opie & Jimmy Norton in the studio Thursday morning to talk about his new memoir, "Even This I Get To Experience."

Things aren't the way the used to be back in Lear's day.

The legendary television writer and producer is known for penning 1970s sitcoms such as "All In The Family", "The Jeffersons", "Sanford and Son", and "Maude," and talks about his life at large in his new autobiography.

The crew got to talking about modern technology and the effect text message communication and the proliferation of information has on attention spans.

"I'm reading your book and it's so good," Norton tells Lear, "but my attention span, because of texting, is not what it was ten years ago."

"That's a very important note," Lear said. "What will the average be 50 years from today?" Norton predicts a sort of insta-download of a book in your brain.

#TheFuture. Lear wonders about the kind of world that will be, though with his new book, readers won't have to wonder about the world he used to be in.

In the world of comedy today, Lear is a big fan of South Park, and Seth Macfarlane.

"He dares," he said about Macfarlane. "Sometimes he dares too much, but he is funny." The Book of Mormon is "a gift of sanity to the world," Lear said.

In an article by ABC News, Frazier Moore writes: "This is an entertaining, penetrating celebration of a richly lived life, as well as a show-biz chronicle kicking off in the late 1940s..."

Read at length about Lear's autobiography via The Huffington Post.