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The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil

future. One of the main lessons of behavioral economics is that small changes to the environment we live in matter.

Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense

Algorithmic taste, in Peter’s case as a consumer, was both boring and alienating. On the creator side, by contrast, ubiquity can be profitable.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

nytimes.com

In the age of social media, cyber trolls, and fake news, it is a national and global crisis that people so readily follow their feelings to embrace outlandish stories about their enemies. A community in which members hold one another accountable for using evidence to substantiate their assertions is a community that can, collectively, pursue truth... See more

Jonathan Haidt • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By some measures you are lucky these days to get 47 seconds of focused attention on a discrete task. “Middlemarch” is tough sledding on that timeline. So are most forms of human interaction out of which meaningful life, collective action and political engagement are made. We are witnessing the dark side of our new technological lives, whose

“It’s not saying AI should be banned,” Spencer clarified of the initiative. “It’s more pro-human than anti-tech.”

Leslie Katz • ‘Human Intelligence’ Art Movement Takes Defiant Stand Against AI

take computer science classes, and that’s all fine and dandy, but we really haven’t figured out, what does it mean to be a citizen of a digital world? We need to integrate that into our early education experiences.”

Greg Epstein • Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation

We have, he believes, created in our culture “a perfect storm of cognitive degradation, as a result of distraction.”