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This bodes ill. Readers used to outnumber non-readers 2 to 1. Now non-readers outnumber readers 3 to 1. It's hard to imagine a change of that magnitude not having significant effects.
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(Me): What’s that invisible substance all around you? (Goldfish): Oh, water? (Me): You know about water? (Goldfish): Yes, what else would I be swimming through? (Me, nervously): And that invisible surrounding barrier? (Goldfish): You mean my bowl? Which keeps the water in?
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everyone wants to talk about the "violence of legibility" and "rendering the self/other legible" until I submit a paper and my argument "doesn't make any sense"
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this is the correct response you should be scared
I actually think one thing (maybe not the main thing) is the linguistic changes in how math is expressed. I remember a friend telling me he felt intimidated reading “Let S be a set.” It’s not that he didn’t follow, he just felt scared. He later got a PhD in nanotechnology.
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