Do episódio “A.l. School Is in Session: Two lakes on the Future of Education” podcast Hard Fork:
From my perspective, the biggest change that we need to implement urgently — and that we are implementing, but it’s not happening as fast as it needs to — is a shift in literacy. It will pain me to say this, and it may pain some of your readers to hear this, but longform, immersive literacy is coming to an end as a widespread cultural phenomenon. People do not read now like they did 10 years ago. They don’t read like they did two years ago. They definitely don’t read like they did 30 years ago.
Now, this gets complicated — who people, where. How much literacy was there ever? Bracket all that. Even in the most elite circles, the ability to give yourself to an immersive textual experience is ending. This has enormous implications for a tradition that has meaningfully inscribed itself textually. And part of what you came to university in the humanities to do was to read books. But you can’t anymore because nobody can read them.
Foi precisamente acerca deste tópico que eu fui entrevistado pelo Público há uns tempos atrás. Na altura a questão cingiu-se apenas à população masculina, mas acredito piamente que este panorama se verifica ao longo de todo o espectro de géneros e idades.