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Scrolling Past Each Other: The Slow Death of Empathy
You open social media and start scrolling through stories. The first story is a friend’s vacation photo. The next one shows a natural disaster somewhere in the world. Then you stumble upon footage from a war zone, genocide, and many dead bodies. Before you even have time to process what you just saw, the next post appears, and you see another joke, meme, or an ordinary moment from someone’s day.
When AI Becomes Your Study Partner
The classroom of 2026 looks different from what it did even five years ago. Instead of flipping through thick textbooks or highlighting printed notes, students now open ChatGPT to find the answers to their questions and use other AI-powered tools to summarize the lectures instead of typing them manually. It is not a surprise: digital assistants can summarize a 30-page article in a moment, write a code for you that you might struggle to provide on your own, or draft an outline for your research paper.
Is Critical Thinking Possible on Algorithm-Driven Feed?
Remember a time when you had to wait for your favorite TV program, cartoon, or the evening news, walk into a library to pick your next book, or actively search for perspectives beyond your own – a time when the desire to broaden your viewpoint required effort and patience.
