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Reading in the age of AI: A life skill more crucial than ever before
Paradoxically, in a world awash with information, insight and understanding seem to be in short supply. Reading is a necessary corrective.
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Reading is not just about acquiring information. It is about developing the capacity to think and form judgments, says the writer.
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Warren Fernandez
Today (April 23) is World Book Day, launched in 1995 by UNESCO to celebrate writers and promote reading.
In another era, this might have seemed like a quaint festival marked mostly by book lovers. But today, there is a new urgency.
