AI
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Today is August 4, 2026″ – and seventy-six years ago, Ray Bradbury imagined a future full of Smart Homes, artificial intelligence, and the loss of humanity. Thirty-two years before that in 1918, struck with the horrors of World War One and the Spanish Flu Pandemic, Sara Teasdale presented her vision of a world restored, nature…
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When a voice I respect in the AP English Literature community suggested a poem titled “Please Use AI,” I sickened with disgust. How could a teacher of literature ever make such a nefarious recommendation? I said as much to my students this morning in my British Literature class. (We’re wrapping up Beowulf and I felt…
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“But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death Meditations on Modernity By Vincent H. Anastasi 2023 II. The…
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