Clive Thompson
Oct 10, 2023

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Glad you liked it! And yeah, that "content" attitude has infected the humanities itself -- as with the STEM, weakly amended to "STEAM" sometimes.

Just this weekend I was encouraging a young relative of mine, who's in high school, and unsure of what she wanted to study, to head out into a classic liberal-arts degree; everything I've seen in 25 years of journalism, including a ton of business journalism talking to CEOs and managers, is that the world desperately needs people who can think coherently, research and figure things out, and express themselves and their findings coherently ...

I don't know if I was convincing or not!

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Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson

Written by Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net

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