{"id":1783,"date":"2012-11-04T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T23:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/sdgc\/cgi-bin\/ycisl\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2012-11-04T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T23:55:22","slug":"wsj-how-to-avoid-a-bonfire-of-the-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: How to Avoid a Bonfire of the Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael S. Malone contributed an article titled &#8220;How to Avoid a Bonfire of the Humanities&#8221; to the Opinion section of the October 25, 2012 issue of the WSJ. The article describes how disciplines in the humanities are resurgent in necessity to innovation. A specific example is cited with a quote from Santosh Jayaram that &#8220;English majors are exactly the people I&#8217;m looking for.&#8221; The thought continues that &#8220;storytelling&#8221; is a rare talent and today goes a long way towards competitive advantage. I would actually pose this is as great prospects for the hybridization of humanities thinking with science, engineering and business. We have already seen it in various ways &#8211; the graphical user interface (GUI) is a hybridization of art and technology. Usability is a hybridization of engineering, design, architecture \u00a0and psychology.<\/p>\n<p>We can use the notion of &#8220;storytelling&#8221; with the 90-second elevator pitch approach as well as the executive summary framework from Garage Technology Ventures. Together, youth can learn to be compelling and noticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael S. Malone contributed an article titled &#8220;How to Avoid a Bonfire of the Humanities&#8221; to the Opinion section of the October 25, 2012 issue of the WSJ. The article describes how disciplines in the humanities are resurgent in necessity to innovation. A specific example is cited with a quote from Santosh Jayaram that &#8220;English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}