
Students are often discouraged from studying liberal-arts disciplines by people who think it will be difficult for them to find jobs in a world dominated by technology.
Scott Hartley, a venture capitalist and former researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, bucks that trend in The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017). His book suggests that the liberal arts are more important than ever. He cites numerous examples of people with liberal-arts backgrounds who are leaders in the technology sector. Liberal-arts backgrounds, Mr. Hartley argues, make people qualified to understand human nature and the communities we form. This understanding is indispensable when employing technology to help solve human problems, as are the intellectual agility, creativity, and curiosity developed by studying the liberal arts.
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