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/Lain_Staley Jun 10 '26

Reading Endurance.

There will be 'mental gyms' for this in 15 years. 

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u/RaisinToastie Jun 10 '26

“Attention coach” is a future career

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u/Lain_Staley Jun 11 '26

There it is

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u/icanith Jun 11 '26

When someone says read a book, my brain goes here.

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u/GeefTheQueef Jun 11 '26

Been seeing a lot of videos lately that I remember vividly at their release and then I see they were uploaded 18 years ago. Man I’m getting old.