What’s the future of education in an AI world? (Part 1)

How can we rethink schools to meet the future? What does this have to do with the invention of the printing press, the prevalence of desk calculators, or the spread of Google? And how is this connected to the writer Goethe, a digital replica of the philosopher Aristotle, or the two lasting bequests that we should give our children? Join Eagleman this week for surprises about what AI means for the next generation.

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Eagleman D, Brandt A. The runaway species: How human creativity remakes the world. Catapult; 2017 Oct 10.

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