[Encore Episode] 160 How the Internet Is Changing Language (w/ Gretchen McCulloch) - Originally Published January 18, 2021
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Is There a Generational Dilemma?
i don't, i don't nowif thre's ever been an arrow where like, the older generation entirely approved of or understood the younger one. No, it's not about approval. Going back to socrates, am ting as a technology took many, many years and generations to become a prominent literacy. Whereas the internet dropped on us, and in ten years, completely changed our culture. So i guess i'm asking a question about future shock of like this was not a gradual thing. It was an explosive generational division that, at its simplest, you know, least nefarious ways, causes friction between parents and kids. At its most nefarious, causes disinformation and people not understanding what
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