Love the shout out of Winners Take All. It was a great book highlighting the flaws of the anti-democratic, technocrat mindset. A good companion to it is When McKinsey Comes to Town, which highlights the dangers of relying on narrow profit motives to make business and government decisions. It seems like Gates is the best example to highlight because he is so often held up as the "good billionaire" using his money through his foundation to do good things, when in reality it's another anti-democratic system of one person thinking they know better than everyone else and implementing ideas that influence public policy in the way they want and end up having a harmful impact on everyone who didn't get to make that choice.
I give Gates a little more credit. He does read extensively and spends his time investigating issues that fascinate him. His personal journey as a learner is impressive, but understanding the social, political, and bureaucratic world of education from the perspective of a self-motivated learner has what others will see as limitations. I am interested in the role AI might play as a tutor. I see AI more as a capable peer - useful if you don’t expect perfection and are metacognitively active in evaluating and directing the interaction.
Love the shout out of Winners Take All. It was a great book highlighting the flaws of the anti-democratic, technocrat mindset. A good companion to it is When McKinsey Comes to Town, which highlights the dangers of relying on narrow profit motives to make business and government decisions. It seems like Gates is the best example to highlight because he is so often held up as the "good billionaire" using his money through his foundation to do good things, when in reality it's another anti-democratic system of one person thinking they know better than everyone else and implementing ideas that influence public policy in the way they want and end up having a harmful impact on everyone who didn't get to make that choice.
I give Gates a little more credit. He does read extensively and spends his time investigating issues that fascinate him. His personal journey as a learner is impressive, but understanding the social, political, and bureaucratic world of education from the perspective of a self-motivated learner has what others will see as limitations. I am interested in the role AI might play as a tutor. I see AI more as a capable peer - useful if you don’t expect perfection and are metacognitively active in evaluating and directing the interaction.