@sukhisoo said:

In the future, children will be learning calculus at about the age most of us were fighting with long division. I kind of hope this turns out to be true.

Experience seems to suggest that people will actually learn/know less and less - except about stuff like "Gender Studies" - and will simply rely on more advanced gadgets to do things for them.

@Knixon said:

@sukhisoo said:

In the future, children will be learning calculus at about the age most of us were fighting with long division. I kind of hope this turns out to be true.

Experience seems to suggest that people will actually learn/know less and less - except about stuff like "Gender Studies" - and will simply rely on more advanced gadgets to do things for them.

Knixon your reply genuinely made me lol, thanks. So, not only "Gender Studies" (actually lots of things that end in the word "Studies") but "Critical Theory" and other marxist/leftist crap. But you're right, we're actually getting stupider on the whole. The gadgets are getting better but the information we can retrieve on them is being censored/edited/revised by aforementioned marxist/leftist idiots cough Zuckerberg cough

The information IS available, if people relied less on the gadgets.

But it could easily lead to "Idiocracy." Problem is, even that relies on a certain number of people who are actually smart, to keep things going. And often having to pretend they're NOT smart, in order to protect themselves. I don't know if I would have been so willing to serve that purpose even when I was younger, and I certainly couldn't be bothered now.