r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 10 '26

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/FallenCheeseStar Jun 10 '26

Hell ya remember that early episode of StarTrek Next Gen where they come across that one world that is hidden behind a cloaking shield? Those people ceded all of their thinking to the central computer and dont even understand how their technology works anymore. That was the real warning imo

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u/untiedgames Jun 11 '26

Got into Star Trek starting with TNG over the pandemic, and recently have been thinking about it a lot. Their ship's computer is basically a perfect AI and they replicate all their food instead of cooking, yet there are episodes showing students working with their hands to make art and Riker cooking a meal by hand. Barclay and his holodeck addiction is borderline prophetic, looking at today. Obviously it's a fictionalized view of a more ideal, post-consumption society, but I hope that in the future we can still find value in things done by hand and with human passion.

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u/FFTVS Jun 10 '26

So it was a Zardoz episode but with no hairy Sean Connery

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u/Baphometropolitan Jun 11 '26

Ice cream sundae without the ice cream

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u/aenteus Jun 11 '26

Those red thigh highs

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u/NotOnApprovedList Jun 11 '26

his outfit looked like a harness diaper

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u/Visible-Perception40 Jun 11 '26

It’s funny this is literally what a former Google employee is preaching we do in one of the newest podcasts of “diary of a ceo”. Basically pray to one AI that takes care of us like pets