"Will Artificial Intelligence Kill College Writing?" asks a professor in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Micah Mattix gives what I think is a thoughtful response: "This is one of the problems with teaching writing exclusively as a tool. Most tools are replaceable. But I don’t think writing—real writing—is in any danger of being replaced by … Continue reading Whether AI Will Replace Writing
Month: September 2022
Three Months of Tech Fasting: A Brief Report
Three months ago I deleted social media from my phone so I could re-evaluate my relationship with technology. For the first 30 days, I checked no social media at all. In the next 30 days, I allowed myself a few visits to Facebook and Instagram, but only on a desktop web browser for short periods … Continue reading Three Months of Tech Fasting: A Brief Report
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From chapter 48 of Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson: "Fisheye has taken what appears to be an instruction manual from the heavy black suitcase. It is a miniature three-ring binder with pages of laser-printed text. The binder is just a cheap unmarked one bought from a stationery store. In these respects, it is perfectly familiar to … Continue reading Job Security
A Rare Example of Responsible Rhetoric
In my early college years, I was introduced to extensive scholarship on the subject of rhetoric---a subject which, I was delighted to discover, has occupied the minds of great thinkers stretching back to Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and St. Augustine. As a young student of writing and literature, I simply had no idea that there … Continue reading A Rare Example of Responsible Rhetoric
Richard Rabil, Jr. 