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by Andrew Edwards | Jun 8, 2015 | digital is destroying everything
Why would a person who has made a living in digital for thirty years write a book called, “Digital is Destroying Everything”? First, let me tell you that my views do not amount to a dystopian rant on all things awful about digital technology and culture....
by Andrew Edwards | Jun 4, 2015 | Social Media
A recent article in the New York Times Magazine showed how social media can play an important role in advancing the cause of civil rights. In a larger sense, this is a story about how possibilities expand when data is turned into action. Since the so-called...
by Andrew Edwards | May 22, 2015 | education
Higher education in America may be headed for a massive change—from quadrangle to desktop. And the cause may be rooted in student debt and a promise, too often broken, that education leads inevitably to high income and financial freedom. Way back in 2013, the...
by Andrew Edwards | May 21, 2015 | algorithms
In a digitally-driven world, “texting” has replaced “talking” much as “role playing” has replaced “playing”. Much of the domain of human interaction, such as characterized by long-valued, perhaps sappy notions like “the milk of human kindness” have been offloaded (not...
by Andrew Edwards | May 11, 2015 | algorithms
By most accounts, the American economy in 2015 is growing appreciably. Unemployment, while perhaps an undeserving bellwether, is down. The Dow almost daily makes last month’s dizzying heights a footstool. But there’s evidence that while the past few...