The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot
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archive.isThe Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot
open.substack.comAccording to US federal data analysed by Sunil Iyengar of the National Endowment for the Arts, reading for pleasure is in steep decline across every age group in the United States. Most dramatically, the drop is concentrated among young adults, a generation being raised on infinite scroll and ambient distraction. This is not a gentle tapering, but... See more
Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
Amid the breathless techno-optimist awe of artificial intelligence—and ahistorical dismissal of its novelty—it is easy to forget that the current crises of reading and writing are unprecedented in degree, but not in kind. “After Words” considers what’s actually different about today’s information overload and whether we’ve been postliterate for far... See more
https://www.facebook.com/TheBafflerMagazine • no. 81—After Words
Most intriguing — and alarming — is the case of IQ, which rose consistently throughout the twentieth century (the so-called “Flynn effect”) but which now seems to have begun to fall.
The result is not only the loss of information and intelligence, but a tragic impoverishing of the human experience.
For centuries, almost all educated and intelligent... See more
The result is not only the loss of information and intelligence, but a tragic impoverishing of the human experience.
For centuries, almost all educated and intelligent... See more