This seems very interesting.
'The end of print culture is already upon us. With its end, we are already witnessing the disintegration of modernity’s load-bearing foundations, including the valorization of facts and objectivity, and a conception of the individual subject as a universal model of human personhood. This reality-picture, which crystallized in the seventeenth century, is already well on its way to dissolution in the solvent bath of digital media, a process radically accelerated by the spread of AI.'
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In my own observation, internet content consumption degrades long-form concentration but heightens awareness of patterns of shared meaning, which echo mnemonic communicative registers more characteristic of medieval culture than of modernity. The journalist Tyler Cowen reports corresponding with a teacher who affirms this observation among his students. According to this teacher, “the ability of students to process and work with a text in a standard ‘linear’ fashion has declined,” but at the same time their ability “to find patterns or links between texts has increased substantially.”...'
