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...
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...
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...
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...
by Larry Magid This post is adapted from one that first appeared in the Mercury News I’m well aware that New Year’s resolutions are often abandoned by the end of January, but that’s no reason to avoid thinking about how we can improve our lives in the year to...