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Batch processing made sense in the industrial era, where you didn't have technology to customize learning. In the factory model, you'd teach to the median and lose the kids at the top and bottom of the curve.

Erik Torenberg • Opportunities in Education

“There’s this great essay by Hannah Baer in the latest issue of Artforum, where she unpacks why we are so afraid of AI becoming more intelligent than humans. If you look at this historically, humans have positioned themselves as the most intelligent species, even though that’s not true. As the “most intelligent species,” we’ve used this power as an

Meet Mindy Seu — passerby magazine

unintended consequences of our use of data.

DJ Patil • Ethics and Data Science

But even with all their flaws, the existence of dozens of massive, collectively-maintained, curated and organized libraries of communal culture are still something like a miracle of the web. Tellingly, these kinds of sites rarely get launched these days, and the ones that have survived all follow a fairly common set of patterns. They often start as... See more

Anil Dash • The People's Web - Anil Dash

In the twenty-first century, however, knowledge is becoming less a question of “What is the information?” and more of a “Where is the information?”

Douglas Thomas • A New Culture of Learning

clever people sought to measure, in data bits, the amount of information produced in

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Digital technologies change rapidly, but organizations and skills aren’t keeping pace. As a result, millions of people are being left behind.

Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee • Race Against the Machine

His questions can be asked about all technologies and media. What happens to us when we become infatuated with and then seduced by them? Do they free us or imprison us? Do they improve or degrade democracy? Do they make our leaders more accountable or less so? Our system more transparent or less so? Do they make us better citizens or better consume