A Message From the Publisher
Happy birthday us! This month marks one year since we moved to weekly updates. Publisher Mo Lotman shares a few thoughts about The Technoskeptic and the stakes of its mission.
Category: Philosophy
Podcast #9: Danielle Allen on Education and Civics
Danielle Allen is a University Professor and the director of the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, a regular columnist for The Washington Post, and author of five books, including most recently Education and Equality. She spoke with us about the current emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering, math), the challenges of technology in education, and what it takes to raise an engaged and self-actualized citizenry.
Node to Self
If the Internet is a global neural network, then who are we?
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, part two
European communist states were, perhaps, the ultimate manifestation of the modern conflation of technological development with progress. But with such [...]