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Professor David Unwin reflects on how GIS grew from niche quantitative geography into a major field thanks to advances in computing, data, and education in the 1980s–90s. He highlights his own accidental career path, early teaching innovations, and the rise of online learning. He ends by questioning modern AI’s reliability and stressing the continued importance of good geographic thinking.
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Relevant links:
- No links this time but instead references to biographical materials, which Professor Unwin is happy to forward if requested. He can be contacted at d.unwin19 at yahoo dot com
- ‘Experiences in ‘e’ and ‘distance’ learning: a personal account’ — Chapter 28 of ‘Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education (eds Unwin, Foote, Tate & DiBiase, 2012)
- ‘Fiddling on a different planet?’ — Geoforum, 2005
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