Can tech save the humanities?

Can tech save the humanities?

 

"Projects like these use technology to do what the humanities have always done: contemplate the ways — sometimes disturbing ways — in which human beings experience one another and the world. “If there are ways to embrace technology in teaching, you’d be hard pressed to a find a discipline stronger than the humanities,” says Sharon Marcus, a former dean of humanities at Columbia who is on leave this year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study."

All must have degrees

All must have degrees

"Judging by job titles alone, 26.4m workers in America - two-thirds of those with degrees - are doing work that was mostly done by non-graduates a half-century ago...'countries have skills shortages, not degree shortages' ".