Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

I'm sitting in my office listening to Radiohead as I work on a computer to research learning and technology. It makes you think. From Kottke: "A 1965 television interview with a 107-year-old Irish farmer (born in 1858) on all the changes he's seen during his life. Q: "What would you say was the biggest change?" A: "Well, machinery." This man was born 100 years before I was. In two lifetimes, we've gone from the scythe to self-driving combines. It's all so very new and precarious, and I'm not looking forward to what happens if and when this all stops working.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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