This Week with EdSurge

Is Autocorrect Enhancing Our Brains or Eroding Our Humanity?

Feb 22, 2022 · 38 min · 32.4 MB
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Philosopher and historian of technology Justin E. H. Smith has been diving into the past to see where our dreams about the internet have come from. And he has a warning for what he thinks is going wrong in how things have evolved in recent years — and what tech might be doing to us as learners and thinkers. Understanding that past, he argues, can help make a course correction.