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Apps Are the New Asphalt
We are still designing our world around the smartphone, even though its days may be numbered
10 hrs ago • Wessie du Toit
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Do We Need the University?
Speaking as a non-academic: Yes
Sep 18 • Wessie du Toit
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To Lindisfarne and Back
An unlikely dialogue
Sep 4 • Wessie du Toit
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The Future of Reading
Our sacred practice can flourish even if very few of us are doing it
Aug 29 • Wessie du Toit
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Heat
Hotter summers call for imaginative adaptations. We won't get them.
Aug 22 • Wessie du Toit
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Cities Without Jobs: Africa's Urban Crisis
The fate of the world's fastest-growing continent will affect us all
Aug 9 • Wessie du Toit
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Practice and Virtue
In Memoriam Alasdair MacIntyre
Jun 20 • Wessie du Toit
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Enclosing the Cultural Commons
Thoughts on artists and AI
May 29 • Wessie du Toit
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More China
Roadblocks to the Chinese Century
May 25 • Wessie du Toit
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Chronicler of a doomed class
The bittersweet diaries of James Lees-Milne
May 16 • Wessie du Toit
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Blackout
Our society would rapidly unravel without electricity –– and information
May 5 • Wessie du Toit
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Haptic City
A touch of Lisbon
Apr 30 • Wessie du Toit
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