Koen Hufkens, PhD on Nostr: Rather myopically, NZ cuts all funding to the humanities. I would argue that the ...

Rather myopically, NZ cuts all funding to the humanities. I would argue that the challenges in our immediate future are not technological (we have the tech) but mostly social (value) based.

From the article: “The idea that somehow the economy doesn’t involve people seems to me a very strange one, ..”

The focus on the idea that a techno-fix (for the economy) would be right around the corner is exactly what got us here.

https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-cuts-basic-research-new-zealand-scraps-all-support-social-sciences

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