Big Ideas

 
The Chronicle Review, the magazine that accompanies the weekly Chronicle of Higher Education, recently came out with a feature on “What will be the defining idea of the coming decade and why?” (See “What’s the Big Idea”)  Over twenty scholars and illustrators were asked to respond to this question, and their answers make for engaging reading.  Author and computer scientist Jaron Lanier posits that it will be “The End of Human Specialness.”  Daniel J. Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, predicts a “’slow information’ counterrevolution focused on restoring individual thought and creativity.”  Parker Palmer of the Center for Courage and Renewal, an author well represented in our library’s collection says it will need to be the resolve to rescue Democracy from irrelevancy “in the face of ‘money, faction, and fear.’”  All-in-all, big ideas that take us outside our usual workaday thoughts and concerns 

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