from Hacker News

Is This Any Way to Run a University?

by jmgrosen on 6/5/18, 5:15 PM with 1 comments

  • by downrightmike on 6/5/18, 5:28 PM

    The article is hitting the nail on the head: "For one, the mainstream conversation is now waking up to the perils of a world governed by Silicon Valley and the ensuing damages of “surveillance capitalism.”7 Is it realistic to expect academics to scrutinize these techno-political systems, much less to help build alternatives, when their institutions share so much with the owners of these systems?"