"They don't," says Bauerlein, "grow up."

“他们还没有长大。”Bauerlein说。

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Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, has just written the Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardises Our Future.

亚特兰大埃默克大学英文教授Mark Bauerlein曾著有《愚蠢的时代：数字时代让美国年轻人发昏，毁掉我们的未来》一书。

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Mr Bauerlein fears that, far from opening new vistas for learning and awareness, digital technology has fostered a level of public ignorance that now threatens not just our competitive wellbeing but our democracy as well.

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Most of these simply moulder: Mark Bauerlein of Emory University points out that, of the 16 research papers produced in 2004 by the University of Vermont's literature department, a fairly representative institution, 11 have since received between zero and two citations.

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