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LH #72 The University in the Future, with Stephen Downes

The Learning Hack podcast

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We Still Need People in Learning

We still need people to, I don't want to say create knowledge because the machines will do that. We still need people messing around on the edge of technology or the frontiers of thought beyond anything that's practical. And coming back with whatever they have and sharing it with the world is important for a variety of reasons. The main one is we can have experiences that our knowledge-producing machines can't have just by virtue of being human. That's not a business proposition. It has to be a function that is socially supported.

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