Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Technology in the classroom?

September 6 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Technology

I would have told them years ago that given a choice, I would choose a school with ZERO technology over one with the best technology. WSJ 9/4/2019

Districts spent millions on laptops, apps and devices; parents worry it’s not helping. BY BETSY MORRIS AND TAWNELL D. HOBBS When Baltimore County, Md., public schools began going digital five years ago,... Read more

The Deep Dangers of Life Online – WSJ

August 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Social Engineering, Technology

By Daniel Henninger WSJ 8/7/2019 The online forum 8chan is better known than it was last week because the El Paso shooter, Patrick Crusius, uploaded his “manifesto” to the site before he murdered 22 people. 8chan has also been linked to the mass murder in Christchurch, New Zealand,... Read more

Not to Late to Quit Social Media – Cal Newport

January 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Personal Development, Technology

Should be required reading for all. [As in ‘everyone’]. ===== WSJ 1/26/2019 by By Kate Bachelder Odell Americans may not agree on much, but here’s one point of consensus: Social media isn’t entirely wonderful. Facebook has its privacy scandals, and who would join Twitter for the camaraderie? This week an ugly online mob demonstrated the point by setting upon a... Read more

The Interconnected World and Martin Luther?

December 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, Technology

Some thoughts about how things change, and yet how much stays the same… ========= By Niall Ferguson Originally published in The Sunday Times, October 1, 2017 Just as Martin Luther’s utopian vision and the invention of the printing press led to an era of religious war and turmoil, the internet, hailed as a portal to a better world, is threatening democracy The hyperconnected world was... Read more

The Computer that could Rule the World

November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, Technology, Western Civilization

This makes me nervous. ====== WSJ – 10/28/2017 By Arthur Herman During World War II the federal government launched the Manhattan Project to ensure the U.S. would possess the first atomic bomb. Seventy-five years later, America is in another contest just as vital to national security, the economy and even the future of liberal democracy. It’s the race to build the first fully operational... Read more

Fake News and the Digital Duopoly

April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Technology

If you think Google, Facebook, or even LinkedIn, are ‘charities’ and primarily concerned with the task of “serving mankind” I would say you are deluded. ========== By Robert Thomson    WSJ 4/5/2017 ‘Fake news” has seemingly, suddenly, become fashionable. In reality, the fake has proliferated for a decade or more, but the faux, the flawed and the fraudulent are now pressing issues because the... Read more

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