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How to Develop Immunity to Manipulation
Why are tech titans afraid of students reading primary sources? They develop the one skill algorithms can't replicate: the ability to think for…
 • Michael S. Rose
Nostalgia Manufactured in Real Time
We live in a world where memory is no longer a private resource but a social currency, produced in real time and consumed asynchronously.
 • Michael S. Rose
Dopamine & Data: The Infinite Feed
Artificial intelligence has now learned the secret recipe of attention itself. It is the world’s most patient student of human weakness, and it is being…
 • Michael S. Rose
The Anticipated Memory of the Insta Generation
Future historians of this era will study us as we studied Pompeii: a civilization frozen mid-gesture, caught in the act of documenting its own…
 • Michael S. Rose
The Soft Apocalypse of Your New Best Friend
Your search engine would like to know your favorite color. Your chatbot wonders if you slept well. Next week, perhaps, it will offer to tuck you in.
 • Michael S. Rose
Should We Look to Shakespeare, or to AI?
Against the seductive promise of effortless education, Shakespeare's example stands as a reminder that there are no shortcuts to wisdom and that the…
 • Michael S. Rose
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Edu-Tech Grift
AI is here to save education—just sign here, wire the funds, and forget the children.
 • Michael S. Rose
The Gospel According to Andreessen
Silicon Valley has embraced a quasi-religious narrative of technological determinism, complete with its own eschatology, moral framework, and conversion…
 • Michael S. Rose
Must We Surrender Education to Technology?
The classroom, once the sacred domain of the teacher, is now a shrine to digitized “learning experiences” whose fundamental assumption is that the…
 • Michael S. Rose
Fools With Tools Are Still Fools
Schools risk being reduced to training camps for interface management, breeding generations of docile operators who are taught only to steer the…
 • Michael S. Rose
Snapchat & the Vanishing Ethics of Youth
An app promoting impulsivity over reflection, secrecy over transparency, and temporary gratification over lasting relationships has come to dominate…
 • Michael S. Rose
Resisting the Call for a ‘Digital Mindset’
From the heights of the digital sanctum, the decree descends, veiled in the language of innovation but heavy with obligation, an edict issued not for…
 • Michael S. Rose
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