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ecib · 3824 days ago · link · · parent · post: Chomsky: The Internet is full of people who can’t read and want to talk about sandwiches
Great point, but I have to wonder if there is a slight dumbing down as well. I do a ton of reading, but as a child it was almost exclusively long form. The technology I use most often has helped change that, and I read probably just as much or more, but shorter articles and fewer books. I hate to admit it, but I know the content is not as good, but the format has become habitual. While this is my experience with my consumption, I sometimes wonder what that means for people growing up in today's world who consume, for a baseline, shorter and lower quality content. What effect does that have on their output? At any rate, I think it would be negligible compared to the factor you cited, -access.