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Rob Ashton on the Science of Writing

The Informed Life

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Zoom, the Default Mode of Communication for Most of Us

We forget that what we are doing is reading and writing. And zoom is obviously and literally more visible. If my phone rings, I assume something is wrong. We stay using written media much longer than we should do. It's not that writing has died out, the opposite, we've become reliant on it. You can even find yourself in text based arguments that last hours when we could solve the problem if we just raised our device for speaking instead of writing.

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