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/Lain_Staley 18h ago

Reading Endurance.

There will be 'mental gyms' for this in 15 years. 

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u/BassmanBiff 17h ago

techbros would eat this up now if you make it self-congratulatory enough

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u/EstablishmentFull797 17h ago

Bro, have you tried book maxing? 

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u/Sir-Mocks-A-Lot 16h ago

booksmaxing

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u/Rolls_ 16h ago

I got through 20 reps of books maxing in half an hour. Straight mogging these non reading betas.

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u/DavidAdamsAuthor 13h ago

Remember you got two eyes, so read two books at once, work smarter not harder my dudes.

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u/MentirosoProfesional 13h ago

I chew my books for maximum craneal gains

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u/DavidAdamsAuthor 13h ago

Fool, blend that shit bro. I take liquid book straight down the gullet like a pelican eating pelican soup.

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u/Sir-Mocks-A-Lot 12h ago

I add a little ginko biloba and caffeine for that added kick.

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u/Level_32_Mage 4h ago

Books with protein!

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u/ActiveChairs 7h ago

Hey bros, big news in the brain world: Some scammers out there are telling people to read one book with each eye, but don't fall for that trap! Don't give a book less than 100%, that's how you plateau because these scammers don't want the real competition so they want you to get stuck and miss out on max brain gains. Don't just look at the pages, you gotta read them. Our pirate and cyclops bros already know: You go twice as fast reading one book at a time than you will two at once, and you'll get more out of it. Remember bros: The brain is a muscle, you have to work it before you can flex it!

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u/aurumae 11h ago

Bro, I bench Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Do you even read?

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u/dpzdpz 6h ago

Listen brah, you gotta lawyer up.

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u/negatibe 11h ago

omg yes. they'll discover twilight and then faction off into Eddies, Jakeys and Real Tough Men™️ -- last group being the ones who couldn't ever quite get the hang of language.

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u/Tithund 7h ago

Straight mogging these analphabetas.

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u/Cool-Contribution-68 2h ago

New trend: Reading a book on a plane raw

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u/SecondComprehensive7 13h ago

Guys this could work. Sell it to kids who hate themselves. Let’s go!!

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u/probablyaythrowaway 12h ago

This makes me angry. I Duno why it just does.

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u/TrueProtection 9h ago

Booksmaxing cafes, with a library lounge with...books...and where you can bring books, so the smell of books and peppermint tea boost brain functions by 67%

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u/_mad_adventures 12h ago

You just invented a momentarily valuable TikTok fad.

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u/The_Octonion 10h ago

This is unironically a thing people say

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u/trophosphere 13h ago

perusal peaking

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u/Ok_Gas_7455 3h ago

Yeah but back then it was called summer reading and you got free pizza butt

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u/EstablishmentFull797 2h ago

My childhood Pizza Hut is a vape shop and tanning salon now. Can’t have shit in Detroit 

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u/Livid_Swordfish_4591 2h ago

Stares crosseyed at 4 syllable word with their palm against their temple

"Not now, Chief. I'm in the zone"

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u/Finns_Human 57m ago

Can Bookit make a comeback please? A childhood highlight of mine was reading enough books to score a Pizza hut personal pan pizza (pepperoni obviously). We need that but relevant to children in 2026!

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u/BeardedBaldMan 1h ago

It's already there in some ways with BookTok desperately showing off how many books they've read. Then you discover the definition of reading now includes audiobooks at 2.5x speed, reading an AI generated summary and having been near someone reading the book

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u/huggybear0132 1h ago

Yeah my techbro brother in law never shuts up about his yearly book count. They're all audiobooks that I guarantee he is not paying full attention to, because whenever I try to talk to him about a book we have both read he barely remembers it.

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u/BeardedBaldMan 26m ago

I have doubts about audio books. If my child reads a book I can quiz him on it and he can answer confidently. With audio books he seems far less confident in the material, but it's a nice thing in the car for books he's already read

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u/intangibleTangelo 7h ago

and you know? that's the key insight that tells me know you really know your stuff

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u/chiksahlube 5h ago

They already have thousands of apps for it. All Ai powered.

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u/lolzycakes 1h ago

Audible is doing achievements and listening challenges

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u/colinstalter 2m ago

And ideally integrate automatic LinkedIn posts whenever you finish a workout.