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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.

Rose Horowitch - The End of Reading Is Here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/

Anders Hansen - The Attention Fix: https://sites.prh.com/andershansen

Chapters:

00:00 The end of reading is here

02:45 A new dark age?

04:14 What is happening in our brains?

07:00 What is the trade-off?

08:50 The role of social-media

11:10 How the end of reading affects politics

12:40 Where are heading next?

13:40 Will younger generations turn things around?

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