People used to read books. Perhaps not always great books, perhaps pulp thrillers written at speed, but books nonetheless. Reading was simply something done for enjoyment, by everybody.Now this has been replaced by the phone.Today reading is seen in the same way as earing vegetables, something done because it is good for you, not something done for enjoyment. Yet literacy declines each year. College students are unable to understand fiction that was considered easy in the past. These are students of English Literature, unable to comprehend Dickens. Is literature doomed? The only fiction that sells is romantasy, and people have started to see those books include AI prompts accidentally left in.They are already saying that poetry had a good run, but it's over now. Soon they will say the same of the novel, and then the short story. Within 20 years flash fiction will be seen like we look on 1000 page books today.
the people of the future will upload all classic literature diectly to their brains easier than johnny mnemonic.
There are no good books being written anymore, so there's no point reading unless you want to read smut or books from eighty years ago.
>>25173927> easier than johnny mnemonic.Yes, the story was about how easy that was, right?
We are returning to monke. In 50,000 years, the planet will be a giant Detroit teeming with apes who once spoke language.
>>25173338you won't live long enough to see it so who cares
>>25173338This is a good thing. We readers are destined to become the elite of the future.As the masses devolve into Morlocks, let us assume our positions among the Eloi.
>>25173927Flying cars, machine brains, space exploration, cyber-reality: they've been seeling you amazing futures for 20+ yearsWe got: pocket television and sicophantic chatbot.
