Replied to a tweet by John Stewart (Twitter)
What are ways to engage students in conversation around “salvation through technology.” #domains19 One example I’ve heard: “No worries about our planet with plans for space exploration.”— Keegan Long-Wheeler (@KeeganSLW) June 10, 2019
There’s a long history of using tech and rhetoric around tech as a way out of Malthusian limits on resources. Tech as salvation has been a dominant way of thinking, but needs to be challenged/critiqued. #Domains19— John Stewart (@JohnStewartPhD) June 10, 2019
I bookmarked a great post by Jim Luke (@econproph) a few weeks ago on scale and scope. I suspect that tech’s effect on education is heavily (if not permanently) scale-limited, but scope may be a better avenue going forward.
I also suspect that Cesar Hidalgo’s text Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies may provide a strong clue with some details. To some extent I think we’ve generally reached the Shannon limit for how much information we can pour into a single brain. We now need to rely on distributed and parallel networking among people to proceed forward.
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