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c048today at 7:05 AM4 repliesview on HN

What's even more worrying is that I've heared plenty of people defend it as, "Younger generations are just intelligent in different ways compared to older generations."

I'm halfway through my 30's and this downturn started with my generation, halfway through the 80's. I hope I'm missing something, because I still need to see a benefit for lower attention spans, lower comprehensive reading skills and lower critical thinking capabilities.


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lelanthrantoday at 12:44 PM

You should point out then that "border collies are just intelligent in different ways, too"

Cthulhu_today at 9:41 AM

Halfway through 30's means you were born in the 90's though, but other than that you're right, the advent of the internet, google, and rapid fire short form content has messed with our attention spans; the following generation grew up on the internet and saw the advent of high intensity videos and then short-form mobile-only infinite-stream short-form dashed-words videos.

wannabe44today at 7:32 AM

To add, less articulate and somewhat overtly anti-intellectual. Why even learn something when you can ask the slot machine?

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drekipustoday at 8:32 AM

The benefits are increased productivity, consumer satisfaction, and shareholder profits