Ah, Duolingo. What lengths people go just to avoid reading a book and talking to people. All this tech and I wonder how many people are now fluent in multiple languages compared to say a few decades ago.
This is not academic. All signs are saying we are heading in the wrong direction[1] and more tech ain't going to solve shit. Literacy rates and numerical abilities are going down the drain faster than you can say "Claude". I suggest we really, really get our acts together and stop trusting tech to solve our non-tech problems.[2]
“It is actually hard to imagine that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.” [3]
This is not academic. All signs are saying we are heading in the wrong direction[1] and more tech ain't going to solve shit. Literacy rates and numerical abilities are going down the drain faster than you can say "Claude". I suggest we really, really get our acts together and stop trusting tech to solve our non-tech problems.[2]
“It is actually hard to imagine that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.” [3]
[1] https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/press-releases/2024/12/ad...
[2] https://archive.is/zCxBl (The Atlantic: the elite college students who can't read books)
[3] https://archive.is/4k96F#selection-1989.261-1989.387 (Financial Times: are we becoming a post-literate society?)