Renato Soffner

Jan 16, 2020

The future of your education and your job — part 1

Professions are changing. I know you’ve heard it, but if you have questions about it, know Daniel Susskind’s work (The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts. Oxford University Press, 2015). Why is there so much talk about artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, and…

Future

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Jan 16, 2020

The dialogue between the HAL 9000 computer and astronaut Dave Bowman in “2001: A Space Odyssey”

In one of the legendary scenes of a legendary movie (2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1968), the supposedly infallible HAL 9000 onboard computer attempts to get astronaut Dave Bowman to give up his intent: to turn it off. The crew decided this when HAL made a mistake…

Artificial Intelligence

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Jan 2, 2020

Espaços Maker, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) e a educação contemporânea: de volta ao passado?

Em meados da década de 1990 conheci a área de tecnologia aplicada à educação. O sistema Logo, as ferramentas de produtividade pessoal e profissional. Informática pessoal. Em 1997 tive a oportunidade de conhecer o MIT Media Lab, lar do próprio Logo e de seus descendentes: o StarLogo, os kits Mindstorms…

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Jul 6, 2019

René Descartes and my educational background: recollections of a fulfilling sense of scientific and philosophical relief

My first contribution to Medium — Just the other day I wrote a comment for a Medium article (which defended the idea that all of us must write, no matter the subject nor the professional level of the authorship). My words were: “Nice article. I was thinking of becoming an author, now I have decided to…

Philosophy

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