[HN Gopher] Are we becoming a post-literate society?
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       Are we becoming a post-literate society?
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2024-12-27 22:34 UTC (27 minutes ago)
        
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       | homebrewer wrote:
       | https://archive.is/Kp4ZV
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | The ability to code is the new literacy!
        
         | dawatchusay wrote:
         | Ability to write wasn't the original literacy! It's about
         | reading. If you can't read code or commentary about code how
         | are you supposed to write good code or formulate new ideas
         | about what good code should be and propagate those?
        
       | dang wrote:
       | [stub for offtopicness]
        
         | hanney wrote:
         | The irony of this article being hidden by a paywall..
        
           | dawatchusay wrote:
           | Unpaywalled link has been posted already
        
         | owenpalmer wrote:
         | I don't understand why people post paywalled content on HN.
        
           | _bin_ wrote:
           | Because it's still a good article and can be unpaywalled. I
           | believe we're supposed to link the original source and
           | someone can just comment the sci-hub/archive.ph/whatever.
           | Same reason you'd cite the original in a paper.
        
           | dawatchusay wrote:
           | Usually someone will come along and post a link that gets
           | around the paywall.
        
           | dang wrote:
           | If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post
           | workarounds in the thread.
           | 
           | This is in the FAQ at
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more
           | explanation here:
           | 
           | https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.
           | ..
           | 
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
        
       | karaterobot wrote:
       | > "Thirty per cent of Americans read at a level that you would
       | expect from a 10-year-old child... It is actually hard to imagine
       | -- that every third person you meet on the street has
       | difficulties reading even simple things."
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       | It isn't hard to imagine, if you've spent any time on internet
       | message boards or social media. The level of reading
       | comprehension is astonishingly low. Heck, even the willingness to
       | read short articles is low, let alone to understand them. I'm not
       | by any means excepting places like Hacker News from this.
        
       | dawatchusay wrote:
       | If you think of reading as one means of consumption of
       | information then the ability to read may just be outdated, and
       | people are moving to new forms of information consumption.
       | Reading was never particularly exciting for me even though I
       | wanted to discover what was hidden (often buried) in texts and if
       | you can get the information in a more engaging and streamlined
       | way so be it. Maybe the issue is really the content people are
       | streaming and the lack of critical thinking and not that they are
       | streaming at all.
        
       | RhysU wrote:
       | "Post-literate" is such a depressingly illiterate way to say
       | "illiterate".
        
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