Tyler Austin Harper: "At the type of place where I taught until recently—a small, selective, private liberal-arts college—administrators can go quite far in limiting AI use, if they have the guts to do so. They should commit to a ruthless de-teching not just of classrooms but of their entire institution. Get rid of Wi-Fi and return to Ethernet, which would allow schools greater control over where and when students use digital technologies. To that end, smartphones and laptops should also be banned on campus. If students want to type notes in class or papers in the library, they can use digital typew... social.ayjay.org

@ayjay Thanks for posting this. The Atlantic piece makes me glad I went to school when I did (in the punchcard computer era).

@ayjay I’m reading Ian McEwan’s new novel (which I recommend) in which, 100 years in the future, there is a setup like this. Unfortunately in the novel it took AI-guided nuclear war and global disaster to get there.

@wcaleb Well, I guess you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. (I do look forward to that book.)

@ayjay All I read about it was that it featured a humanities professor trying to find a long lost poem while the world around him collapsed. Can’t imagine why I rushed out to buy it.

@wcaleb Those ancient concerns … what meaning could they have for US? (Also, re: your other comment, one of my delights in my declining years is to look through books that I have re-read several times, on each re-reading using different implements: pencil, pen, highlighter. Each such book is a material history of my reading and re-reading.)

@wcaleb I bought because it reminded me of the story of Jim Harrison trying to find the poems Antonio Machado had to abandon when he crossed the border between Spain and France. And because it was McEwan.