Steve Talbott

Everyone disowns fact-shoveling education. And yet the computer and its databases, into which we pour information, have emerged utterly triumphant as the reigning metaphors for learning. The metaphors that powerfully grip us are more indicative of what's going on than our much too frequent protesting.

Steve Talbott, 'Chapter 11: Who's Killing Higher Education (Or Is It Suicide?)', Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines


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