{"id":2941,"date":"2014-08-26T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impact.ucdsehd.net\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2014-08-26T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:12:07","slug":"goodread-letter-to-millennials-a-boomer-prof-addresses-his-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2014\/08\/26\/goodread-letter-to-millennials-a-boomer-prof-addresses-his-class\/","title":{"rendered":"GoodRead: Letter to Millennials, a Boomer Prof addresses his class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dr. Jonathan Taplin<br \/>\nDirector, USC Annenberg Innovation Lab.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jonathantaplin\/letter-to-the-millennials-f90a5fb3b366\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full post @Medium<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>\u200bSo we are about to embark on a sixteen-week exploration of innovation, entertainment, and the arts. This course is going to be about all three, but I\u2019m going to start with the \u201cart\u201d part\u200a\u2014\u200abecause without the art, no amount of technological innovation or entertainment marketing savvy is going to get you to go to the movie theater. However, I think there\u2019s also a deeper, more controversial claim to be made along these same lines: Without the art, none of the innovation matters\u200a\u2014\u200aand indeed, it may be impossible\u200a\u2014\u200abecause the art is what gives us vision, and what grounds us to the human element in all of this. Although there will be lectures, during which I\u2019ll do my best to share what I\u2019ve learned about the way innovation, entertainment, and the arts fit together, the most crucial part of the class is the dialogue between us, and specifically the insights coming from you as you teach me about your culture and your ideals. The bottom line is that the world has come a long way, but from my perspective, we\u2019re also living in uniquely worrisome times; my generation had dreams of how to make a better life that have remained woefully unfulfilled (leaving many of us cynical and disillusioned), but at the same time your generation has been saddled with the wreckage of our attempts and are now facing what may seem to be insurmountable odds. I\u2019m writing this letter in the hopes that it will help set the stage for a truly cross-generational dialogue over the next sixteen weeks, in which I help you understand the contexts and choices that have brought us where we are today, and in which you help me, and one another, figure out the best way to move forward from here.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jonathantaplin\/letter-to-the-millennials-f90a5fb3b366\" target=\"_blank\"> CONTINUED<\/a>\u00a0]<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dr. Jonathan Taplin Director, USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. Read the full post @Medium \u200bSo we are about to embark on a sixteen-week exploration of innovation, entertainment, and the arts. This course is going to be about all three, but I\u2019m going to start with the \u201cart\u201d part\u200a\u2014\u200abecause without the art, no amount of technological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[103,106],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-generations","tag-goodread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}