Explain This?
I thought getting computers to poor kids was going to be the great equalizer. Economists are trying to measure a home computer’s educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households. Taking...
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Ayn Rand & Ressentiment
I have no idea what is going to happen politically in the next six weeks, but the victory for Tea Party wingnuts like Christine O’Donnell over the past few weeks says that the lunatics have taken over...
View ArticleSteve Jobs and America
I’m lucky in that I get to work pretty closely with Apple at the USC Annenberg innovation Lab. So if I have anything to add to the reams of copy written this morning about Steve Jobs’ decision to step...
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Next Steps for OWS
The leaderless Occupy Movement should quietly thank Mayor Bloomberg for ending the encampment in Zuccotti Park. As Ad Busters, the culture jamming magazine which first proposed Occupy Wall Street,...
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Weekend Update 1/21/12
A rainy Saturday in Los Angeles seems like a good time to put down some random thoughts. The SOPA Battle So SOPA is dead, and as I said earlier in the week, it was a fatally flawed piece of...
View ArticleCambrian Moment
My friend and colleague John Seely Brown gave a speech yesterday that really lifted my spirits. He said we are in a Cambrian Moment with a whole new tool set consisting of Cloud Computing; Graphic...
View ArticleAmerica’s Paranoia Problem
A year ago I wrote a post called American Crack-up, in which I argued that a good bit of the country had become completely divorced from Reality. It began with these lines. When did it start? When did...
View ArticleSilence, Exile, Cunning
I’m going to take a long summer break from blogging. I have a book to write and that will take all of my creative energies. You can always friend me on Facebook where I post links to things I’m...
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Thought Police on Campus
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn I’m afraid these poor sensitive sophomores can’t read “Huckleberry Finn” without a warning label. Should students about to read “The Great Gatsby” be forewarned about...
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The Sharing Economy-A Dissent
I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of the University in creating a humanistic framework for this technological disruption that is affecting all of our lives. Then I came across a column from...
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