Via Jeremy Pepper’s Twitter feed comes this storyabout how some are rebelling against the focus on math, science and other subjects at the total expense of anything relating to the arts.
Uninformed by the human empathy and awareness that are the raison d’etre of these disciplines, technology is ethically neutral at best, anti-human at worst. But with the liberal arts as its animating spirit, technology’s potential benefits are limitless.
It’s super important to have a well rounded education and base of experience. Otherwise you wind up developing super-powerful lasers at the behest of your college professor without considering the real-world applications of that laser, which is probably going to wind up in the hands of the military unless you can break into an Air Force base and redirect the laser’s beam to strike that professor’s house after you’ve filled it with popcorn, which he hates.
