Quit Your Technology Job and Get a Humanities Ph.D.

(May 11, 2011) Dr. Damon Horowitz is a philosopher and entrepreneur, exploring what is possible at the intersection of technology and the humanities. He discusses the value of a humanities Ph.D. in a world that is being continuously inundated with new technology, and how to apply the degree toward a successful career.

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[DarthKazi]

Good idea. Put yourself in a lifetime of debt, just so the other guys at the burger joint can call you "Doctor". ;)

[dojohansen123]

Oh my.. what an exercise in mediocrity. So he didn't realize tech is providing means to an end until he went to philosophy class. Pity his philosophy class hasn't equipped him to understand not all are like him.

I guess MY personal experience is about as interesting. It is this: techies tend to be intellectuals; the humanists I've known are comparative lightweights and often only superficially interested in understanding or truth.

If you can't build it, you don't understand it.

[EltBerserker]

Hmm, this is an interesting video. Science and technology are great, but so are the humanities, I wonder what the fuss-

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oh.

[chansetwo]

Great video. One cannot truely be an educated member of society without a solid foundation in philosophy. 

[theInsertionPoint]

@tubub The world is not losing poverty; the gap between rich and poor is getting bigger in many countries. About half the world lives in third world or relatively poor countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. You might say they are poor because they lack technology but its technology that allows them to live so long and overpopulate their countries. This overpopulation is a cause of the poverty. Also, living longer is not necessarily positive. Its about quality over quantity.

[Zralf]

i don't need to go to school for 5 years to learn how to be a human.

[tubub]

@theInsertionPoint

The world is losing poverty, which you mistake for culture. Human life spans have never been longer, people have never enjoyed the kind of knowledge they do today, and more people live in relative prosperity than ever in the history of the world. All of this due to technology.

Technology does not facilitate laziness. I'm sorry you and a few others in this country use it that way.

Humanities is worthless today, unless you're living on a hippie commune. You can use it there

[theInsertionPoint]

@tubub This is exactly what people SHOULD be hearing. Go into humanities, technology is destroying our world. The world is losing its culture, language, integrity, health, and nature. All that technology is doing is facilitating human laziness, destroying the environment, inducing obesity, and disconnecting us from each other and the natural world.

[theInsertionPoint]

@dojohansen123 Technology is overrated

[DSBrekus]

@DSBrekus thinks* not things* lololol

[DSBrekus]

What an idiot. He had to get a philosophy degree to figure out what everyone should be able to figure out on their own. It doesn't take a useless degree or meaningless terminology to be intelligent or caring about society and anyone who things so is extremely narrow minded.

[AndreGole]

@DarthKazi man, is really money the only thing which counts for you?