And, yes, a vast increase in the portion of the population with a college education. And of course we explain the basics more than we did, because we are increasingly conscious of a broad audience with many odd gaps in their knowledge. Every skipped step risks losing a reader who might have benefited from an author’s thoughts. And some of our readers may even speak English as a second or third language.
If this is true, I wonder if the advent of AI will lead to prose in books that doesn’t have to do this anymore, because the reader-otherwise-left-behind can just ask AI if they end up confused about something.
If this is true, I wonder if the advent of AI will lead to prose in books that doesn’t have to do this anymore, because the reader-otherwise-left-behind can just ask AI if they end up confused about something.