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Technology keeps improving, thereby expanding possibilities for us. So we have a choice. We can either ignore those possibilities, and merely accept what technology offers, which will ultimately make us lazy. Or we can explore those new possibilities. But to do that, we need to expect more of ourselves.
I had the privilege of participating in The Radcliffe Workshop on Technology and Archival Processing a few weeks back. I was thrilled to be on a great panel with some early career historians and Ma…
In conversation with the Netscape creator turned Silicon Valley sage.
Another debunking of the "NO CAN LEARN WITH COMPUTERS" nonsense.
the "Turkey fallacy," and why "it hasn't happened so it won't happen" is wrong
Sound familiar?
A sense of crisis, ongoing paranoia—this is just part of what it means to be a humanist.
Remember a couple of weeks ago when news articles like this, or this or this were all over your social media? Mine too. I’m a little late to replying, but I didn’t want to do it until…
The book is not the opposite of technology—it is technology.
It’s the most pernicious cliché of our time.
One of the things I’m exploring on this blog is ways of writing in a way that is more open, more iterative, like my whole Writing the Article Series (start here, or browse through the categor…
There's been a lot of really bad "research" purporting to demonstrate that screen reading is automatically inferior to paper reading. This post demolishes it.
Duck under the table as another jeremiad about the ravages of social media unfurls.
'Will [ ] allow us to better understand each other and thus make war undesirable?' is one that pops up whenever we invent a new communication medium.
The New Media Are Evil trope as used in popular culture. There's always going to be The New Rock & Roll, that new fad or thing that causes …