[EGreg]

Nah. In 30 years it will be as useless to learn most subjects as it is right now to learn crocheing and knitting, or learning times tables or using an abacus.

People are wayyyy too optimistic, just like in the 1900s they thought people would have flying cars but not the Internet, or how Star Trek’s android Data is so limited and lame.

Bots will be doing most of the work AND have the best lines to say, AND make the best arguments in court etc.

You don’t even need to look to AI for that. The best algorithms are simply uploaded to all the bots and they are able to do 800 things, in superhuman ways, and have access to the internet for whatever extra info they need.

When they swarm, they’ll easily outcompete any group of humans. For example they can enter this HN thread and overwhelm it with arguments.

No, the old masters were needed. Studying will not be. The Eloi and Morlocks is closer to what we can expect.

[tokai]

Apparently knitwear is forecasted to have a CAGR of 12% the rest of the decade. With hand knitted garments commanding the high prices. It's definitely not the worst cottage industry one can chose.

[EGreg]

https://xkcd.com/1102/

[flandish]

As someone who’s known how to crochet and knit since he as 6… I disagree.