Swellmeister t1_iu97fxk wrote
Reply to comment by nomagneticmonopoles in TIL that Fahrenheit 451, a book about a distopian future where books are banned and burned, was banned and burned by the apartheid regime in South Africa with other tens of thousands. by open_closet
No. It's only the first half of his theme. "People will consume information in smaller bits" it still lacks the second half "and that will make them willfully stupid".
In essence they do the opposite. The drive for knowledge is a large part of what tiktok does well. People in this age have access to greater knowledge than ever before and they are taking advantage of it greater than Bradbury could have ever imagined
naraic42 t1_iudz4cc wrote
There's much more information. I'm not sure how much more actual knowledge there is...
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