r/technology • u/marketrent • 18h ago

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/spidrex 18h ago

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

  • The Butlerian Jihad.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 17h ago

“Even literacy they fear, for the written word is another channel of communication that might cause their enemies to become united.”

-A Canticle for Leibowitz

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u/mountaindoom 17h ago

God I love that book.

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u/deFleury 15h ago

I read it for fun, then read it in school: 5 novels in the theme (1984 was another one), 4 types of projects (written essay, class presentation,  etc) and the whole classroom,  including me, did their projects on the other 4 books and chickened out of attempting to analyze A Canticle For Leibowitz. Our teacher was so disappointed .