Podcast Program of Create World 2008

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The two cultures

In the late 1950s C. P. Snow set the scientific cat amongst the humanities pigeons with his claim that there was a damaging and perhaps irreconcilable divide between the two main cultures of contemporary society: the scientific and the literary liberal arts. Some 50 years and a digital revolution later, Phil Long took up the two cultures issue in his Create World 2008 keynote address, locating it within a dazzling array of research on neuroscience, learning and emerging technologies. (You can view a 3.3MB pdf of Phil’s slides and notes here, but you may need to be patient while it loads.)

Phil is currently in transition from MIT to the University of Queensland, where he is the founding director of the Center for Educational Innovation and Technology. His current research interests focus on designing learning spaces to support active learning, emerging technologies, the use of virtual worlds, and digital tools that extend understanding of the physical world. Here he is giving a guest talk at Berkeley in early 2008:

Phil spoke with Allan Carrington and Ian Green immediately after his Create World presentation. Phil is a dynamic speaker, so there’s a good chance that when you listen to this audio you’ll be fired up to make your contribution. Please don’t hesitate. Go to the comment board and express yourself.