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    • Home
    • Books
    • Opinion Pieces
      • Generative AI
      • Generative AI
      • Future of Work
      • Future of the Humanities
      • Issues of the Day
      • COVID-19 in 2022 and 2023
      • COVID-19 in 2021
      • COVID-19 in 2020
    • Technological Change
    • Enhancement Capitalism!
  • Home
  • Books
  • Opinion Pieces
    • Generative AI
    • Generative AI
    • Future of Work
    • Future of the Humanities
    • Issues of the Day
    • COVID-19 in 2022 and 2023
    • COVID-19 in 2021
    • COVID-19 in 2020
  • Technological Change
  • Enhancement Capitalism!

Future of the Humanities

The need for brave experiments in higher education 2 March 2024

Owning the future: How Big Tech coopted our imaginations, and how we can take them back 19 Dec 2023

Owning the future: How Big Tech coopted our imaginations, and how we can take them back 19 Dec 2023

We need Brave Experiments in Higher Education. 

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Owning the future: How Big Tech coopted our imaginations, and how we can take them back 19 Dec 2023

Owning the future: How Big Tech coopted our imaginations, and how we can take them back 19 Dec 2023

Owning the future: How Big Tech coopted our imaginations, and how we can take them back 19 Dec 2023

A piece for ABC Religion and Ethics on how charismatic tech dudes literally own the future. We can fight back by freeing our imaginations

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When Socrates meets Silicon: A cross-cultural conversation on human enhancement - 1 May 2024

Owning the future: How Big Tech coopted our imaginations, and how we can take them back 19 Dec 2023

A Platonic dialogue, with comedic touches, between a Brazilian and a New Zealand philosopher on how to approach our age's challenges.

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To protect the humanities from being taken over by Humanities, Inc., 15 Feb 2024

A piece on the challenges of Big Academic Publishing. Does it want to turn academic writers into robots?

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More philosophy to create cognitive herd immunity - 12 Jan 2022

More philosophy to create cognitive herd immunity - 12 Jan 2022

A piece on the challenge of fake news during a pandemic. Might the study of philosophy provide cognitive herd immunity?

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Finding Purpose in the Humanities- 9 Dec 2021

More philosophy to create cognitive herd immunity - 12 Jan 2022

Piece for Project Syndicate describing an experiment in student writing about the humanities

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Dear Wikipedia — instead of asking for money, why not ask for help?- 14 Nov 2022

Dear Wikipedia — instead of asking for money, why not ask for help?- 14 Nov 2022

Piece on the ABC suggesting Wikipedia should ask for help, not money.

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Beware the Wikipedia effect in higher education - 13 Dec 2021

Dear Wikipedia — instead of asking for money, why not ask for help?- 14 Nov 2022

This piece on the ABC uses ideas from the behavioural economist Dan Ariely to point to a threat for the in-depth understanding characteristic of the humanities from Wikipedia's knowledge-for-free business model.

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A warning for traditional universities - August 10, 2021

A warning for traditional universities - August 10, 2021

Scary things in store for traditional universities from digital learning techs that will predictably improve on the miseries of teaching by Zoom

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Nicholas Agar Says More... - May 26, 2020

Nicholas Agar Says More... - May 26, 2020

A warning for traditional universities - August 10, 2021

An interview about some of my ideas by Project Syndicate.

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Mind Over STEM - Aug 30, 2019

Nicholas Agar Says More... - May 26, 2020

Mind Over STEM - Aug 30, 2019

An exploration of the value of the Humanities in these times of rapid technological change. We need it to overcome our bias toward overconfident experts. 

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