AI is not a rupture in history, but a continuation of intelligence emerging where information becomes systematically arranged.

“The problem is in our information. Humans, yes, we are generally good and wise, but if you give good people bad information, they make bad decisions.”

"What’s happening now has, in fact, been happening since the very invention of language and writing."

In a world overwhelmed by confident yet often misleading claims, research professor Alex Edmans emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and informed decision-making to combat misinformation and enhance our freedom.

This class, featuring insights from experts like Steven Pinker and Gary Marcus, equips learners with critical thinking tools to navigate biases, understand scientific research, and make informed decisions in a media-saturated world, emphasizing the importance of questioning assumptions and grounding perceptions in data.

“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.”

Timothy Caulfield, a leading science communicator, discusses the challenges of combatting misinformation in an age of information overload.

It's simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here's both how it works and how to use it.

“The problem with conspiracy theories is they're not just telling you a story, they're telling you a really good story. There's a hidden cabal behind everything that's happening, there's a secret pattern that you just have to be smart enough to detect.”

“Why is it that the quality of our information did not improve over thousands of years? Why is it that very sophisticated societies have been as susceptible as stone age tribes to mass delusion and the rise of destructive ideologies?”

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Digital analyses of Enlightenment-era letters are teaching us a thing or two about Locke, Voltaire, and others.

How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.

Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.

Social media has made yelling past each other all the easier.

Washington University professor John Inazu tells us how we can make peace inside a raging culture war.

Cable news has a bigger effect, study finds.

It may be the only way to save the USA — and the world — from alternative facts. “If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.” –Ernest Rutherford There […]