Short Video Isn’t Just Rotting Our Brains. It’s Rewiring Them. Short-form video is the logical outgrowth of an increasingly oral culture.

An increasingly terrible culture. I think Neal Stephenson was right — in the future, the majority of people will be illiterate again. We’ll regress to the long-term mean of about a 10-20% literacy rate and everyone else will use glyphs/emojis and communicate with video only.

We’re already on that path and accelerating down the hill; little to nothing will stop it now.