All News and Announcements: Cal Newport

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Cal Newport profiled in leading Spanish newspaper El País

“This Georgetown professor, podcaster, and best-selling author of ‘Deep Work’ and ‘So Good They Can’t Ignore You’ has the key to meeting goals and having free.…

July 7, 2024

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Student Stories: Fritz Fellow Mac Milin Kiran publishes with CDE’s Jones and Newport on proposed child online safety legislation

In an article published on ProMarket.org titled Are We Tumbling Toward an Adults-Only Internet? Meg Leta Jones, CCT MA candidate and Fritz Fellow Mac Milin Kiran, and Cal Newport…

April 12, 2024

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Book Talk with Cal Newport: April 8, 2024 5:30 pm

As part of the “What Makes Us Human in the Age of AI” series co-organized by the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and the Center for Digital Ethics, a conversation with NYT…

March 20, 2024

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Cal Newport in the New Yorker: “It’s time to dismantle the Technopoly“

Writing in the New Yorker, CDE’s Cal Newport reflects on the recent history of societal responses to the introduction and incorporation of new technologies. He argues…

December 18, 2023

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CDE’s Cal Newport delivers the Crown Lecture in Ethics at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University

Posted in News  |  Tagged Cal Newport, public understanding of technology Photos courtesy of Duke University On Thursday, October 5, Professor…

October 17, 2023

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Cal Newport in The New Yorker: We Don’t Need a New Twitter

Writing in The New Yorker, Cal Newport explores the effort to create a Twitter alternative and asks “Why is it so important to create a better version of Twitter in the…

August 16, 2023

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Cal Newport on July 5, 2023 “Plain English” podcast from the The Ringer Podcast Network

Cal Newport discusses the deceptive lure of productivity tools and how they actually make us less productive in “How the Digital Workplace Broke Our Brains” on Derek…

July 5, 2023

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Newport in The New Yorker: “What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have?”

“The response to ChatGPT, and to the other chatbots that have followed in its wake, has often suggested that they are powerful, sophisticated, imaginative, and possibly even…

April 23, 2023

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CDE Artificial Intelligence Panel at John Carroll Weekend 2023

On Friday, April 21, three Center for Digital Ethics (CDE) faculty members spoke to a standing-room-only audience in a panel titled "AI Chat: Crisis or Human Evolution?" at John…

April 21, 2023

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America Magazine editor lauds Newport book as “a secular piece of scripture”

Writing in the Jesuit magazine America, poetry editor Joe Hoover, SJ calls Cal Newport’s book Deep Work “a secular piece of scripture that needs to be read over and over, to…

April 18, 2023