The frictionless feed

We have more culture available to us than any humans in history, and The Guardian wants to know why the dominant feeling is boredom. Its answer is that frictionless pleasure erodes the appetite it feeds.College students have stopped reading whole books (The Conversation), though a sharp rebuttal argues the panic is aimed in the wrong direction (Trevor Aleo) — we built an excerpt economy, and now are blaming 19-year-olds for living in it. Video’s format keeps turning vertical because