The rise of the post-literate society | DW News

A quiet crisis is transforming human civilization: the rapid death of reading and the rise of a "post-literate" society. With the average attention span shrinking to mere seconds, we talk to writer Rose Horowitch ("The End of Reading Is Here") and psychiatrist Anders Hansen to dissect how technology uses evolutionary vulnerabilities to steal our attention.

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