Full Show: Blackboards And Message Boards
This week on Innovation Hub: is our education system set up to fail? Then, we look at "the front page of the internet" and the boundaries of free speech online.
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Show Notes
First, what does a well-rounded education mean to you? Does it make you smarter? Or are you simply jumping through hoops to try and impress future employers? George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan argues that the way the system is set up, it’s mostly become a hoop-jumping exercise.
Then, it’s not that hard to imagine a place where ordinary people - not editors - determine the news. But when the website Reddit first launched in the mid-2000s, the idea was groundbreaking and few could imagine the enormous influence the company would have.