Where is society heading?
The answer is: towards a de-skilled society.
More and more, thinking itself is being turned into a service, a product that is offered by some company or other. When people look for answers or want to understand something, they turn to Google, Bing, or to social media. There, they are likely to find easily digestible, byte-sized snippets that will do for most practical purposes.
(Over a year ago I wrote this, but it's increasingly relevant.)
https://indoxicate.me/taas/
Maarten Steenhagen /
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