Reading the Context: Becoming Fluent in AI through Play

We've moved from the "age of Enlightenment" to the "Age of Entanglement," says John Seely Brown, a long-time leading thinker, technologist and scholar on learning. In this episode of Future Fluent, Jeremy Roschelle and Betsy Corcoran go the source: JSB has done it all, from working at a bookie in high school to managing Xerox PARC, advising technology leaders and publishing more than 100 papers and books, many of which are on learning. JSB has spent his career experimenting -- and yes, playing -- with how the technology we build shapes the way we work and learn. What he's learned along the way? That learning, much like being part of a jazz group or surviving in the wilderness, involves constantly questioning and reexamining everything around us. "The notion of looking for the solution -- or even the (right) prompt doesn't compute anymore."

So much to explore! 

John Seely Brown has published over 100 papers in scientific journals and nine books including coauthoring the acclaimed, The Social Life of Information (HBS Press, 2000) with Paul Duguid, which has been translated into nine languages. 

You could dip into John Seely Brown’s website, which is packed with slides from past presentations. 

Or take a look at any of these publications: 

A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown, 2011. 

Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World, Volume 1: Designing for Emergence (Infrastructures) by Ann M. Pendleton-Julian and John Seely Brown, 2018. 

Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World, Volume 2: Ecologies of Change (Infrastructures) by Ann M. Pendleton-Julian and John Seely Brown, 2018. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.