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Stephen Downes

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Things have come to this: I spent more than an hour today trying (without success) to get an AI to accept microphone input (on both my phone and computer, and on three separate browsers). Meanwhile, events in the world feel to me like they're overtaking everything else. Like this item on diversity, equity and inclusion. The main story here is that a lot of companies are resisting the anti-DEI trend in the U.S., and for good reason. As I said in my seminar today, if you want to be successful in a distributed and decentralized world, you need DEI. Societies that reject DEI become insular, insecure and fragile. But with this discussion we're getting far away from ed tech and are working on the grounds on which a functioning society is based. How relevant is my work in such a world?

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