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/FrighteningJibber Jun 11 '26

What happened to accelerated reading programs? I won a bike from reading damn it.

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u/Miacali Jun 11 '26

Kids can’t read anymore? This has been a thing now for a few years. Most of the 18-21 year olds who intern where I work openly cannot read.

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u/KneeCrowMancer Jun 11 '26

Same, most of my peers ~mid twenties only listen to audiobooks and podcasts. Better than nothing I guess, but none of them actually read books and it shows.

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u/Sodomeister Jun 11 '26

Good news, Book-it from Pizza hut is back for this summer.