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Value in an Age of AI (Part 1): Revisiting Kevin Kelly’s Generatives
Note: Eighteen years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an essay titled “Better Than Free.” In this essay he focused on the…
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Blaming the Parents, Not the Platforms: How a World Bank Screen-Time Report Lets the Attention Economy Off the Hook
Note: This is a cross post with the Civics of Technology blog. The World Bank recently released a report titled…
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The Hammer Shapes the Mind: GenAI and the Rise of the Intention Economy
Camera crews search for clues amid the detritusAnd entertainment shapes the landThe way the hammer shapes the hand. Jackson Browne,…
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Corporations as Paperclip Maximizers: AI, Data, and the Future of Learning
Once in a while, you come across a piece of writing that doesn’t just make you think—it makes you rethink.…
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Teenagers, retirement & the new abnormal
The economist and thinker Andrew Scott once said something that blew me away. He said that: The 20th century created…
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The value of school: Part 2
Note 1: This is the second of two posts on the value of school by Kevin Close and Punya Mishra.…
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The value of school: Part 1
Note 1: This is the first of two posts on the value of school by Punya Mishra & Kevin Close.…
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The attention economy and the future of education The attention economy and the future of education
Peter Hershock is an education specialist at the East-West Center in Honolulu and author of Buddhism in the Public Sphere.…
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The end of the university II The end of the university II
From my end of the university as we know it series, here is another article, this time from The Washington…
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The death of the university? The death of the university?
Zephyr Teachout (supposedly an associate law professor at Fordham University, a writer, and an online entrepreneur) has a great article…
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Learning for free? What does that mean? Learning for free? What does that mean?
Josh Dean writes about his experience with learning from freely available curricula on the Web. What does that mean, How…
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Tiger by the tail Tiger by the tail
A while ago I blogged about a column by David Brooks in the NYTimes (Flipping the Tech & Ed equation).…
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Money for nothing, and your clicks for free! Money for nothing, and your clicks for free!
I knew that website developers would go to great lengths to rise in Google rankings. What I didn’t know was…
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Death & Taxes Death & Taxes
I am always on the lookout for new and interesting visual representations of complex data and just discovered Death &…
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Jared Diamond on creativity, innovation and wealth Jared Diamond on creativity, innovation and wealth
Jared Diamond has an article on edge.org, somewhat provocatively titled: How to get rich? The question his after is simply,…
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Decision science, neural Buddhists & the loopy brain of David Brooks Decision science, neural Buddhists & the loopy brain of David Brooks
I do not understand David Brooks. Brooks is an op-ed columnist for the NYTimes. For the most part his columns…
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Who said this? Who said this?
A quote in today’s oped in the NYTimes, about how this current financial crisis is difficult to understand since many…
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Deck chairs on the Titanic Deck chairs on the Titanic
I just got back from a faculty meeting where we discussed what would be some possible new hires in the…
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Capturing CAPTCHA or If it can be outsourced… Capturing CAPTCHA or If it can be outsourced…
… it will. We have all see CAPTCHA’s (aka Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).…
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Cost of living Cost of living
Being alive costs taxpayers trillions of dollars a year First time research reveals staggering annual taxpayer cost for being alive…
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Value in an age of free… Value in an age of free…
What happens when an economy “built on selling precious copies” suddenly confronts the world of the Internet – a world…