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Robots Aren't the Problem: It's Us
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Florida, Richard – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
Everyone has an opinion about technology. Depending on whom you ask, it will either: a) Liberate us from the drudgery of everyday life, rescue us from disease and hardship, and enable the unimagined flourishing of human civilization; or b) Take away our jobs, leave us broke, purposeless, and miserable, and cause civilization as we know it to…
Descriptors: Robotics, Social Change, Computer Attitudes, Influence of Technology
The Role of the University: Leveraging Talent, not Technology.
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Florida, Richard – Issues in Science and Technology, 1999
Society is in danger of undermining the value of research universities, if they are regarded simply as sources of technology. Finds that universities are important as the nation's primary source of knowledge creation and talent. (CCM)
Descriptors: College Role, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Research Universities