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Tech & the Modern World

The technologies, issues, conflicts and ideas of the rapidly changing modern world.

Why we need Arnold Toynbee's good life - Ian Beacock - Aeon

He was an expert in world civilisations who made the cover of Time magazine in 1947, praised for writing 'the most provocative work of historical theory... since Karl Marx's Capital'. But in September 1921, long before he was the most famous historian in the world, a young Englishman named Arnold Toynbee boarded the Orient Express in Constantinople, bound for London.

Are We Investing in History Repeating Itself?

"Though the funds are ample, consider this: For a century, no major technology has radically changed teaching and learning." By Tom Liam Lynch The hottest trend in education is, perhaps not surprisingly, the technology that accompanies it. This is especially apparent if you follow the money.