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A Future Too Big To Fail: Using Corporate Thinking Corrupts The Classroom | The Jose Vilson

A Future Too Big To Fail: Using Corporate Thinking Corrupts The Classroom | The Jose Vilson

A Future Too Big To Fail: Using Corporate Thinking Corrupts The Classroom

A few years ago, I read an article in Wired Magazinedetailing the events that led up to the Market Crash of 2008-2009, wherein they pin down much of the blame on an elegant and seemingly infallible formula created by world renown mathematician David X. Li. Recounting the events that led up to the crash, the Wired article reads similar to every other well-intentioned idea: the creator thinks he or she is solving a problem, assumes no one will tamper with the few good assumptions within the