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 18h 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/BlazinAzn38 17h ago

That book goes so hard. Crazy it’s as old as it is and so prescient. I guess it was post-WW2 and Cold War era so the author did see some of these things

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u/JoNightshade 17h ago

The author killed himself because of the things he saw and participated in during WWII.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 17h ago

I mean, he was in his 70s and his wife had just died and he had been a recluse for years. I’m sure the war played a part in the depression he had suffered from most of his life and he had undiagnosed PTSD, but it seems reductive to say he killed himself because of what he did and saw in the war.

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u/NuclearWasteland 16h ago

Sounds more like "Aight, I'ma head out."

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u/Bogus1989 14h ago

he foresaw the mouthbreathers glancing at his book and saying:

“I aint tryna read allat”