If Nonhumans Can Speak, Will Humans Learn to Listen? Slate 1/30/2021
An expert on global futures and learning responds to Simon Brown’s “
. The series explores how learning experiences of all kinds will be shaped by technology and other forces in the future and the moral, ethical and social challenges this will entail.
Living in the Anthropocene is fraught with paradox. For centuries, we have convinced ourselves that we, humans, are special and superior to other species and the rest of the natural world. We stand as self-appointed speakers for the planet, as though no other beings can feel, think, or communicate.