Should reading ability be discarded?

Should reading ability be discarded?

Over the past few years, people have become more and more interested in viewing pictures and videos. Taking a picture and a short video has become a very simple matter because of the popularity of mobile phones and the development of technology.

If we recall that thousands of years ago, humans did not invent words. At that time, people had to verbally evangelize everything that happened in the world by observing and remembering. The external phenomena and things are fleeting over time. In order to record the disappearance of the outside world, people slowly invent symbols and texts. By recording the abstract information, humans have more control over this changing external world.

The ability to read was also developed in the human race with the invention of words. This has a great effect on the inheritance of human knowledge and the development of human intelligence. It is of great significance.

However, with the rapid development of science and technology, human beings have more convenient means of recording changes in the external world. The camera equipment becomes very small and convenient, can be loaded into the mobile phone, carried around, and used at any time. Storage space is no longer a problem. Huge cloud storage devices allow people to create content and save it. Since one of the reasons for the production of the text is that the externally-changing world needs to be recorded, it has been solved by science and technology. So, is it the right time to give up human ability to read text?

Many people actually started to do this. People like to watch images and videos more than they are used to, and they don't want to spend time looking at textual content. This phenomenon has become very prominent, and it seems that the trend is becoming more prominent.

But even if the problems driven by the origin no longer exist, the marginal utility that text and reading bring to human beings in the process, such as the promotion of human rational thinking, logical thinking, abstract thinking, and so on, still have a great effect. It is said that the study of brain science also shows that reading textual content during development and viewing video and video content have a very different influence on the development of the child's brain. Some scientists tend to give children more literary content.

Perhaps there is one point in which mankind can find a compromise plan. Combining new trends with ancient traditions, the convenience and richness of images and videos, and the abstract and rationality of text reading.
That would be a bigger improvement.

Chinese version.