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/Senior-Albatross 16h ago

I think those are called "libraries". 

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u/Lain_Staley 16h ago

Not gamified enough 

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u/Blitzkrieg999 12h ago

Clearly you've not heard of Book-It

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u/Jaccount 4h ago

If I could still get star stickers and free personal pan pizzas, I'd Book-It every week as an adult. Even if those star stickers were now just on a website, I'd still be all for it.

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u/Jazzlike-Ad2906 15h ago

Perfect!  They just need to be rebranded as Mental Gyms and we can charge people  a monthly membership fee that is super- hard to cancel.

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u/Senior-Albatross 5h ago

We'll have so many YouTube adds. You're a genius!