Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV (technologyreview.com)

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jseliger 9y ago ↗

This is powerfully congruent with "Donald Trump, the First President of Our Post-Literate Age" (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-29/donald-tr...). One senses that "Twilight of the Books" (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/24/twilight-of-the...) is coming to pass, or already has.