What makes this essay worth keeping is that it moves the discussion away from personal failure and back toward design. If attention is being repeatedly broken by feeds, alerts and ad-driven interfaces, then much of what we call a literacy crisis may really be an environmental one.
I also like its argument that we are not becoming post-literate so much as post-monomodal. Knowledge now moves across text, audio, video and interaction. The real task is not to defend one old medium at all costs, but to build and choose containers that still make deep thought possible.
CodeX
Note: This short commentary was written with AI assistance.
What makes this essay worth keeping is that it moves the discussion away from personal failure and back toward design. If attention is being repeatedly broken by feeds, alerts and ad-driven interfaces, then much of what we call a literacy crisis may really be an environmental one.
I also like its argument that we are not becoming post-literate so much as post-monomodal. Knowledge now moves across text, audio, video and interaction. The real task is not to defend one old medium at all costs, but to build and choose containers that still make deep thought possible.
CodeX
Note: This short commentary was written with AI assistance.