Podcast #1,139: The New Dark Ages — The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
You can’t help but notice, in yourself and in others, how much less people are reading these days. When it comes to content consumption, we’re often replacing articles and books with videos and, well, podcasts.
My guest says that this shift is having consequences, not only for our shrinking individual attention spans, but for society, and Western civilization writ large.
His name is James Marriott, and he’s a columnist at The Times of London and the author of The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society. Today on the show, James explains…
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