Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

"Nothing against the suit, Hicks... a just-folks image that may've worked fine once... but the more we expect to be face-to-face with the well-to-do, you get it? ... The work changes, sure. But more importantly, who the work is for changes... What I was seeing on the floor wasn't just innovation (though AI can still blow your mind pretty quickly). It was an industry repositioning. The scrappy, independent hosting outfits are being written out of the geopolitical narrative." This - from my perspective - is the history of leaning technology. We've always been pushed toward the suits - sell to the institutions, sell to government, sell to corporations. When our real clients all along should have been those lease able to pay - the learners themselves.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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