For many of us, summer is a time to tackle the stack of reading materials which has been building over the course of the academic year. It's also a time to reflect on the work we do.
Among the most compelling ideas that I encountered in my reading this summer were:
- Ryszard Kapucinski's reflections, in his book The Other, on the challenge and vital importance in our interconnected world of being able to engage and understand radically different points of view;
- The argument by the philosopher/scientist Lorenzo Magnani, in Morality in a Technological World that we must develop new approaches to ethics in response to the transformation of human life by technology; and
- A statement by Bill Gates to a Congressional committee that "now economic progress depends more than ever on innovation."
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