The Decline Of Modern Communication, Not Such A Modern Problem

Today’s comic from XKCD, one of my favorite comic strips on the web, puts into perspective the “modern” debate about the alleged decline of communication in the digital age.

It’s amusing, when you actually look at what historically has been written on this topic, to think that these communication crises — the poor writing skills, lack of reading habits, decline of newspapers — were brought on by texting, Twitter, Facebook, E-mail, YouTube, The Internet, etc. etc.

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