How the Humanities and Social Sciences Can Help Us Hack the STEM Fields
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Date: 3 April 2024 |
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Time: 3.00pm - 5:00pm |
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Venue: SUTD Think Tank 19, Building 2, Level 3, Room 2.304 |
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Some of the world’s most successful leaders in technology fields have
backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences. Jack Ma of Alibaba was
an English literature major. Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Slack,
studied philosophy. Steve Jobs studied philosophy and psychology before
spending time traveling in India, where he studied Buddhism and Asian religions.
What allowed these tech innovators to stand apart from their peers was
their ability to anticipate future challenges and seek out opportunity
for growth using the strategic and creative skills that they honed as students
of the humanities and social sciences.
This roundtable brings together practitioners and academics from across
the humanities and social science fields for an exciting conversation about
how tech innovations in anthropology, psychology, Asian studies, communications
and media studies, financial technology, and the digital humanities can
help us answer important social and cultural issues and challenges in Singapore
and our globalized world. In the process, we’ll have a chance to discuss
how tech innovation can help us advance our dreams for Singapore’s future
and help us develop a happier, healthier, fairer, more just, and more equal
society.
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