Tony Wan, EdSurge; The Most Important Skills for the 4th Industrial Revolution? Try Ethics and Philosophy.
"[Patrick] Awuah [founder and president of Ashesi University College in Ghana], a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, continued: “If humans are
designing machines to replace humans, versus helping them get work done,
then that will change the structure of humanity to something that we
have never seen. I’ve not read any history books where whole societies
were not working. This is why it’s so important to have history and
philosophy as part of the curriculum for somebody who's being educated
as an engineer.”
In the United States, increased interest in technology and computer-science related career has correlated with a precipitous drop
in the proportion of humanities majors at colleges. For Goodman, that’s
one of his biggest worries for the future. “We’re entering a time when
schools are eliminating programs in humanities, and philosophy
departments are becoming an endangered species.”
“We need to be
educating people so they are productive and employable,” Awuah later
added. “But we also need to be educating people so that they’re creating
a society that is livable and social, where human interaction is
important.”"
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