A Bull Market in the Humanities
Everything that rises must converge.
I believe we are about to experience a massive renaissance in the humanities, inside and outside of universities—but especially outside of them.
The world outside of the classroom is a target-rich environment for learning, now more than ever. But students must be trained to see it, in all of its depth and layers, and to engage with it so that it’s ultimately fruitful for their human formation and doesn’t simply flow over their faces like lukewarm water, with no refreshment and invigoration at all.
The real world is never going to get outdated or automated. I feel bad for those recently trained for very specific STEM jobs these past few years which AI is already encroaching on. Imagine spending four years learning to code Python, graduating in 2021, only to see AI code in 5 minutes what would have taken you 500 hours. Traditional education, especially technical education, is still training people for jobs that may no longer exist by the time they graduate.
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