Ultra-Processed Minds

"We live in an age of lexical abundance. More words, more access, more content than at any time in human history... The reading brain, once forged by sustained attention and deep engagement, is now adapting to an environment built for speed, distraction, and artificial fluency. What we are witnessing is not the end of reading, but rather the end of the essential consolations that reading affords us. Reading, but in ultra-processed form."

https://carlhendrick.substack.com/p/ultra-processed-minds-the-end-of