David Deming over at the American Thinker gives us a sampling of the good stuff to be found in his book Science and Technology in World History, Vol. 2: Early Christianity, the Rise of Islam and the Middle Ages: Both Greece and Rome made significant contributions to Western civilization. Greek knowledge was ascendant in philosophy, [...]
Robert Wright, at the NYT Opinionator blog, asks whether the huge growth in technology–specifically the internet–means that we’re in the process of building one big brain. We’re not just building a brain, we’re part of it—cells in a superorganism. We’re connected. To begin with, note that the new technologies, though derided by some of these [...]
William Damon– senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, professor of human development at Brown University and editor in chief of The Handbook of Child Psychology–argues that our fixation on short-term goals keeps kids from doing the kind of thinking that is essential for a happy life. He writes: Any success in life, from the mundane [...]