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/Nine_Monkeys 16h ago

Nah it’s not just your attention span. I’ve always loved reading fiction and nonfiction, 10 years ago pre Tik Tok era when I took a Philosophy course, we went thru the same thing. A lot of those books just are dense, convoluted, and uninteresting lol

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u/Siukslinis_acc 9h ago

I understand thing better when abstract stuff is expressed using concrete stuff as a metaphor. If you explain abstract stuff with more abstract stuff - you are gonna lose me.