For this month's discussion, we'll be discussing the following questions: Are we becoming post-literate, or is literacy merely changing form—and what evidence would show that something important is being lost?

We suggest some readings/podcasts below that offer background and a few perspectives. As usual, you are welcome to come regardless of how much of the reading you do ahead of time.

Please feel free to come even if you haven't done the reading, you’re worried it will be awkward, you won’t fit in, or you aren’t the “typical person who comes to a Rationality meetup.” We are welcoming!

READINGS & MEDIA

• Is This What a Post-Literate Era Looks Like? by David Wallace-Wells (NYT)
• The End of Reading Is Here by Rose Horowitch (The Atlantic)
• This is Not the End of Reading. It's the End of Modernism by Aaron R. Hanlon (Substack)
• Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions; few are in book clubs by Pew Research Center
  (Some data for reference)
• The decline in reading for pleasure over 20 years of the American Time Use Survey
  (Some data for reference)

DATE & LOCATION

Date: Saturday, 9/12 @ 2–4:30pm (roughly)
Location: South Loop Strength & Conditioning – upstairs in the mezzanine
645 S Clark
Chicago IL 60605
Note: Todd owns this gym so that’s why there’s a Rationality meetup at a gym 🙂