Dear Professors of the World: Welcome to 2026, Please Update Your Humanity
Dear Professors of the World: Welcome to 2026, Please Update Your Humanity In 2026, knowledge is no longer scarce. Attention is. And wisdom? Still under construction. We live in an era where a student can generate an essay in seconds, summarize a century of research before breakfast, and still feel completely lost by lunch. Information has become fast food—cheap, instant, and oddly unsatisfying. Universities are busier than ever. So are dashboards, metrics, rankings, and performance reviews. Everyone is producing . Fewer are thinking . Somewhere along the way, education quietly shifted its goal: From understanding the world to surviving the system . Professors today teach climate change in air-conditioned lecture halls. Ethics in classrooms powered by algorithms that feel nothing. Critical thinking to students trained by apps to never sit with discomfort for more than eight seconds. And when the world outside collapses—socially, emotionally, environmentally—academia res...