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The contemporary university needs to be reinvigorated, not redesigned simply to promote social justice or “adapt” to the digital age, says Jeffrey Schnapp. Reinvigoration means something different: to create flexible structures of governance and new disciplinary taxonomies that free up researcher-teachers to think, explore, experiment and take risks. He explains how to establish this ethos of in-depth inquiry and serious intellectual play.
Such transformative changes will require collective investment in education, teaching and research as public goods – a renewed collective investment that will be repaid by the sort of porous, centrifugal model of university life already emerging around the edges, expressed by everything from MOOCs to a renewed interest in civic or public humanities, to efforts to re-conjoin thinking and making (design education, training through problem solving initiatives, and the like). Schnapp broadly addresses strategies for how to invigorate the contemporary university and render it responsive to contemporary challenges and opportunities.
Innovation is critical to the future of work. But the ways in which we talk about, critique and approach it are way too narrow, believes Jeffrey Schnapp. To do innovation right and well requires a much more expanded understanding of how processes of discovery and invention actually happen.
Schnapp’s views intersect the ongoing public debate about how innovators are trained and how cultures of innovation are created. Schnapp explores the nature and history of innovation and creativity, and offers real insight into how we create the context in which innovation is enabled, facilitated and flourishes. Innovation isn’t just about forging the new; more importantly, it centers on an ability to put pieces together in imaginative ways from off the shelf and out of the dustbin of history.
When we talk about autonomous technologies, the conversation often centers on automobiles because right now, they’re the most visible expression of the future of smart machines. But self-driving cars are just the tip of the iceberg, says Jeffrey Schnapp. It’s the entry point to the much bigger domain of personal robotics. But a critical question remains unanswered: what do we want them to do? Schnapp explores various definitions and interpretations of autonomy. For what purposes? In what contexts? He also dissects and discusses the substantial societal, ethical and cultural choices – and consequences – embedded in the tasks we assign to machines.
The technology exists, explains Schnapp. But organizations want to know, where are the growth markets? What are the use scenarios? The models of labor? What are the opportunities and the obstacles? And of course, what’s the bigger story and how do they lead customers to buy it and integrate it into their lives? Using the automobile sector and his work with Piaggio Fast Forward as one example, Schnapp delves into these questions and more, providing a broader framework to think about these issues and grab hold of the true value presented by our autonomous future.
Jeffrey Schnapp is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Future of Higher Education: Reinvigorate through Redesign, Historians Make the Best Innovators and Defining Autonomy: Self-Driving Cars are Only the Beginning. The estimated speaking fee range to book Jeffrey Schnapp for your event is available upon request. Jeffrey Schnapp generally travels from Boston, MA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Anna Deavere Smith, Sir Richard Branson, Shashi Tharoor, Rebecca MacKinnon and Jimmy Wales. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jeffrey Schnapp for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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