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How digital literacy replaces natural knowledge

I can name fifty apps on my phone but struggle to identify five birds I hear singing outside my window.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Technological fluency develops at the expense of ecological literacy, reshaping what the mind considers worth knowing.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined natural life — Nasreddin's synthesis?”

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