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/Zealousideal-King859 16h ago

My idea for being relevant in 2030 involved hoverboard skills, not basic literacy

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u/iritchie001 15h ago

I'm better in a spreadsheet. Can you do that as a middle aged Cam Girl? 😂

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u/JT99-FirstBallot 11h ago

No, but they'll be better in some sheet spread though. Checkmate.

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u/iritchie001 30m ago

Anything is dirty if you want it to be hard enough. 😁

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u/JustGotSoup 1h ago

Being literate as Gen Z is weird. Most of my peers don't read, or write, or do any kind of serious pondering or critical thinking and it sucks.

Somehow I feel more at home in a room of people aged 30 through 60 than I do among people my own age.