Enough with the Laptop Ban Debate!

Enough with the Laptop Ban Debate!

Inside Higher Ed, 11.29.17

The laptop ban debate is likely to resurface repeatedly, argues Cathy Davidson, founding director of the Futures Initiative and a distinguished professor in the Ph.D. program in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her study of history has convinced her that skepticism directed at laptops is merely the latest in a never-ending cycle of technological skirmishes that only expire when the technology itself ceases to be relevant.