Is Digital Technology Making Us Smarter?
Saturday, April 6, 2019
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
101 Fairchild Hall
9:00 a.m. - Nicholas Carr, Richmond Visiting Professor, Williams College
"How the Internet reduces attention span and deep thinking"
Commentator: Lorie Loeb, Computer Science, Dartmouth College
11:00 a.m. - Michael Lynch, Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut
"The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data"
Commentator: Joshua Kim, Director of Digital Learning Initiatives, Dartmouth College
Sponsored by: Ethics Institute, Neukom Institute, Daniel Webster Project