300 Years of History Are Over. Welcome to the Post-Literate Society
Translated from Danish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- The article argues that declining reading and writing skills mark the end of a 300-year era shaped by literacy.
It was another time, the article says: a time of people who read and wrote, and a time when they thought logically and rationally.
Now, it argues, students can no longer read books, cognitive abilities are in free fall, and the decline is continuing. The result is what the article calls the arrival of a post-literate society.
For its author, this marks the end of 300 years of history defined by literacy.
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Originally published by Berlingske in Danish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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