Merry Christmas to all and no AIs have nothing to do with it.

I mention AI because I watched a talking head on Television yesterday talking about AI and children. I don’t normally watch TV but had a news program on my leftmost monitor while I was working on a spreadsheet and what he was saying captured my attention for a few minutes.

He was promoting the idea that children in schools should spend less time learning knowledge and skills other than reading and more time learning how to interact more efficiently with AI systems. Since AIs have all of the world’s knowledge on call as needed there is no longer any need for children to actually learn anything. They can simply ask an AI when they require knowledge or information.

We’ve already reached a point where the majority of people in Western Civilization have few if any skills that would keep them alive in the absence of Electricity. It’s kind of sad to think that there are people promoting the idea of learning even LESS.

Fortunately there is a growing movement of people wanting to relearn old skills, to reacquire the knowledge that got lost through Convenience. I hope it continues to grow.

The Librarian