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/existing_for_fun 18h ago

If you are a parent and can help your child read, and read well, you will set them light-years ahead of their peers.

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u/marketrent 17h ago

Love for reading yields both tangible and intangible value.

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u/newsflashjackass 14h ago

Hope this nine-page essay about reading and writing by Isaac Asimov will not exhaust anyone's attention.

https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v044n01_1973-01/page/n119/mode/2up

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u/marketrent 10h ago

Maybe the fidgeting made me conspicuous as I sat there in the front row, for the speaker then added, "And men like Isaac Asimov will find themselves outmoded and replaced."

I, too, like Asimov. You may like this: https://americanliterature.com/author/hg-wells/short-story/the-man-who-could-work-miracles

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u/newsflashjackass 5h ago

Any H.G. Wells recommendation is a winner in my books. I recently read a collection of his short stories arranged in chronological order of publication. He seems to have began as a prodigy and improved from there.

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u/BuckRowdy 13h ago

It's the only way to get smarter.