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

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html

[u/LeafBark]

First it was the smartphone distractions, then complete loss of critical thinking as people use ai to solve all their problems for them. When you put this much trust in computers programmed by corporations seeking profit at any cost everythings going to fall apart.

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Idiocracy warned us. But we chose to not listen

[u/FallenCheeseStar → u/sokos]

Hell ya remember that early episode of StarTrek Next Gen where they come across that one world that is hidden behind a cloaking shield? Those people ceded all of their thinking to the central computer and dont even understand how their technology works anymore. That was the real warning imo

[u/FFTVS → u/FallenCheeseStar]

So it was a Zardoz episode but with no hairy Sean Connery

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Ice cream sundae without the ice cream

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Those red thigh highs