College: A Lesson in Inequality
Rather than bridging economic disparities between students, higher education seems to be widening them; although Google's new customizable maps sound like a great idea, they filter out a lot of useful information; and although some would like to blame the collapse of the middle class on the Internet, truth is it was falling apart long before the World Wide Web. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Rather than bridging economic disparities between students, higher education seems to be widening them; although Google’s new customizable maps sound like a great idea, they filter out a lot of useful information; and although some would like to blame the collapse of the middle class on the Internet, truth is it was falling apart long before the World Wide Web. These discoveries and more below.
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Why American Colleges Are Becoming a Force for Inequality Higher education should be closing the gap between the rich and the poor. But college economics are driving them further apart.
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The Potential Problem With Personalized Google Maps? We May Never Know What We’re Not Seeing Google has crammed a dozen notable updates into the revamped Google Maps that was unveiled this week at the tech giant’s annual I/O developer conference.
Who Owns the Future? Not the Middle Class Jaron Lanier, in the latest contribution to the public conversation about how we live with technology, blames the Internet for the fall of the middle class. Only the problem is he’s wrong.
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