SCOUT· 64%29m·2026-07-23·TechnologyWhy read anymore?
TikTok is endless. Netflix is already starting the next episode. Who's making time to read a book? Today we're chatting with The Atlantic's Rose Horowitch to discuss her story "The End of Reading is Here" and the role technology plays in reducing how much time — and attention — people have to read long pieces of…
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“I really wish they would read out loud the title of the episode, I can't be bothered to read something so long”
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“I work in tech. I’m realizing that if AI is going to send me to the unemployment line, why even have hobbies that are “digital” anymore. So I acquired/reacquired “analog” hobbies (reading, drawing, model kits, vinyl if I have any money left…”
“By the time this is true, all the people who love a real book, me included, will be dead and won’t care if all you youngsters don’t read a physical book, lol.”
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