The core of the industrial revolution was ...
The core of the industrial revolution was a transfer of power away from distributed communities to a handful of industrialists.
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Affordances for me, but not for thee
For years, people have tried hard to get websites to build accessibility affordances. Now developers are willingly building them for AI.
Like sunrise over a sink
It appears that the winner of a short story prize was generated with AI. But how was it selected?
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A quarter of a century of open educational technology
Every day for 25 years, Stephen Downes has written about edtech, informing an entire industry.