I wish to emphasize that this is one of those "Difficult to appreciate from the outside, extraordinarily obvious from the inside" facts about the tech industry.https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1087590716887334913 …
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As sidenote, have had conversations before about whether we are in a literacy bubble and what that would mean haha
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If you consider "the skill which is practicing religious devotions", I'd describe our society as having once distributed it extremely broadly at substantial costs, before deciding slowly and then quickly that society was overproviding it. I do not think reading is immune to this
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A thing underappreciated in our social class is that reading for leisure is an extremely niche activity and that our estimation of the population's literacy is much higher than tests would measure it.
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Why read when there are audiobooks and podcasts? Voice synthesis might get to be as good as professional readers. I already listen to about half my “reading”, and I read a lot.
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At the limit, there’s a tongue-in-cheek theory about Star Wars that almost everyone (including main characters) is illiterate because droids can do most things, reducing the need for intellectual work of any kind.
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