Economic Singularity Is Coming: Why Pay Attention?

The phrase economic singularity is suddenly appearing across scholarly, technical, and public discussions. The central question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will transform work, but to what degree—and what follows.
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Welcome to the Era of Relational Intelligence

Isabelle Hau shares that as AI begins to transform education, work, and social life, we need to focus on developing and expanding capacities essential for human flourishing.

The Future of Learning Looks Like Workforce Infrastructure

For years, “ed tech” was an umbrella term grouping schools, online platforms, courses, credentials, and software under one idea: technology applied to education. That shorthand made it easier for investors, policymakers, and institutions to talk about innovation without rethinking how learning fits into the economy. Today, it no longer explains what’s happening.

Long-Life Learning and the Age-Integration of Higher Education

A look at how colleges and universities can move from age-segregated institutions to age-integrated ones.

Rewriting Education’s Design Principles

As digital tools become more powerful and AI unlocks new possibilities for teaching and learning, the urge to move quickly toward tech-driven solutions is growing. In this article, Maria Anguiano, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at College Futures Foundation, examines the promise of innovations such as AI-enabled tutoring, automated advising, and personalized content at scale...

Achieving an adaptive learner

In this award-winning essay, Stanford’s Daniel L. Schwartz challenges traditional models of education that prioritize routine task mastery over adaptability and lifelong learning.

Firm training, automation, and wages: International worker-level evidence

Firm training is often touted as a key safeguard against automation, but robust micro-level evidence remains limited. In this paper, Oliver Falck, Yuchen Guo, Christina Langer, Valentin Lindlacher, and Simon Wiederhold use harmonized data on more than 90,000 workers across 37 industrialized countries to show that firm-provided training significantly reduces individual automation risk and explains a meaningful share of its wage returns.

Why More Companies Are Recognizing the Benefits of Keeping Older Employees

Annie Coleman reveals that although age bias is still the norm, some employers are starting to tap into the value-add of their most experienced (and yes, older) workers.

Why Professors Fear the Future

Academic life has barely changed in 40 years. Why? The faculty likes it that way.

Are You Building Something?

An interview with Marshall Ganz on what the social sector gets wrong about power and structural change