Podcast: Living in a Post-Print World with Jeff Jarvis

Podcast: Living in a Post-Print World with Jeff Jarvis

Larry speaks with Jeff Jarvis, author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, about how the age of print was an exception in history. And while it lasted half a millennium, we are now coming to the other end of it. What that means, and where do we go from here? Listen wherever...
Lessons from the History of Moral Panics

Lessons from the History of Moral Panics

Posts & Podcast They Built What?! A Deeper Dive into Techno-Panics (long in-depth article) Fears of Generative AI Reminiscent of Past Moral Panics (quick read) Podcast: An interview with Jeff Jarvis, author of Gutenberg Parenthesis Slide Show...
Fears of Generative AI Reminiscent of Past Moral Panics

Fears of Generative AI Reminiscent of Past Moral Panics

By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News and is based on a narrated slide deck and a much longer article that you can view here. There has been a lot of ink spilled on doomsday scenarios about Generative AI, including a statement signed by several...
They Built What?! A Deeper Dive Into Techno-Panics

They Built What?! A Deeper Dive Into Techno-Panics

By Larry Magid ConnectSafely Senior Researcher and Oxford University graduate student Nathan Davies contributed to this article If you ever experience or hear others panic about new technologies, consider the historical context. We’ve been hearing about moral panics...
Brain Breaks are Essential for Learning

Brain Breaks are Essential for Learning

By Kerry Gallagher The researcher and author of a 2021 study shared, “Breaks are often misconstrued as a pause in the active learning process, instead of the period when our brains compress and consolidate memories of what we just practiced.” In other words, our...