New marketing technologies destroy young people’s critical thinking by engaging only their short term attention. It’s only the long-term attention, however, that produces retention for cultural memory mandatory for social development. Destruction of young people’s ability to pay critical attention to the world around them is prevalent throughout the first world, the calculated result of technical industries and their need to capture the attention of the young. Also tracks the notion of critical thinking from its Enlightment apotheosis to its current eradication. Translated by Stephen Barker.

(YOUTH AND TECHNOLOGY * CRITICAL THINKING AND TECHNOLOGY)

Evaluates to what extent the investment in technology in education have paid off in the OECD countries; the Program for International Student Assessment survey finds that the digital divide in education goes beyond access to technology. A new form of digital divide is emerging between those who have the right skills and those who do not.

(EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN OECD * DIGITAL DIVIDE)