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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…
Oct 23
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Michael S. Rose
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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…
Oct 15
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Michael S. Rose
53
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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.
Aug 26
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Michael S. Rose
28
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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…
Aug 21
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Michael S. Rose
28
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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.
May 23
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Michael S. Rose
33
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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…
Mar 31
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Michael S. Rose
20
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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…
Mar 14
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Michael S. Rose
29
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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…
Feb 28
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Michael S. Rose
63
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…
Feb 14
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Michael S. Rose
8
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…
Feb 7
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Michael S. Rose
25
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A.I. and the Illusion of Intelligence
What A.I. offers is an illusion of intelligence and a seduction of ease, but not the kind of deep, self-reliant wisdom that true education demands.
Feb 5
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Michael S. Rose
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The Subversive Art of Slow Reading
What was once an act of immersion has now become an exercise in evasion. There’s no time to linger or to contemplate because the screen is perpetually…
Feb 3
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Michael S. Rose
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