Pamela Hobart

set of remarks Postman delivered in 1988 titled "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change." In it, he explores five insights about technology that every builder and user of technology needs to know:

1. All technological change is a trade-off.


2. The advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the popula

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Reshaping for Conviviality

The real question facing us today is whether generative AI can be reshaped into a tool for conviviality. I would hazard a guess that Illich wouldn't be optimistic.

Certain tools are destructive no matter who owns them, whether it be the Mafia, stockholders, a foreign company, the state, or even a workers’ commune. Networks

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There actually was an education model designed very much like a factory. It was called the "monitorial system." The basic premise is that students teach other students in an assembly line manner, supervised by a teacher in a large room. So Jimmy teaches Timmy multiplication facts. Then Timmy teaches Tommy multiplication facts. Then Tommy teaches Jo... See more

...one of the movement’s greatest champions, John Dewey himself , publicly objected to the practices being designed and promoted in the name of his ideas.

For one, Dewey declined membership in the Progressive Education Association from its outset. (He did accept an honorary presidency after the death of Charles Eliot, but this appears to have been

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