{"id":866197,"date":"2026-09-30T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866197\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:08:08","slug":"opinion-james-marriotts-new-dark-ages-warns-about-the-post-literate-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866197\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | James Marriott&#8217;s &#8220;New Dark Ages&#8221; warns about the post-literate future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CPJOJOMV6NA43LK7BWDPMAWQCE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Supposed menaces multiply rapidly as technologies \u2014 smartphones, artificial intelligence \u2014 mutate. But the most menacing development involves no exotic technology, so it is disregarded.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OAQAE2KR2FH2DP4ZMOGZRDMF4A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">But not by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/authors\/129107\/james-marriott\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Marriott<\/a>. This British thinker warns us: An artifact that enabled modernity \u2014 skepticism, rationality, science, democracy \u2014 is now of rapidly dwindling importance. This artifact, which onlookers said \u201caddicted\u201d its early adopters, was: the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supposed menaces multiply rapidly as technologies \u2014 smartphones, artificial intelligence \u2014 mutate. But the most menacing development involves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":["post-866197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}