We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost | John Harris

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

He sees the hunger people have for a wisdom and nourishing that algorithms and devices don’t provide—but the humanities can. This is the real crisis in humanities, and it’s reached a boiling point.

I don’t travel as extensively as Dana, but I hear the exact same thing in my online dealings with people. They want something that the tech can’t provid... See more