[l33t7332273]

> We talked about "critical thinking", "creative problem solving", and "comprehension of complex systems" as the next step, but even when discussing this, how long will it be until more models or workflows catch up?

Either these things are important to learn for their own sake or they aren’t. If the former, then nothing about these objectives needs changing, and if the latter then education itself will be a waste of time.

[area51org]

There's so much dystopian science fiction about people being completely helpless because only machines know how to do everything. Then the machines break down.

[svieira]

The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster is another very good one:

https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/...

And re-skimming it just now I noticed the following eerie line:

> There was the button that produced literature.

Wild that this was written in 1903.

[turbojet1321]

It's such an amazing short story. Every time I read it I'm blown away by how much it still seems perfectly applicable.

[l33t7332273]

“The Feeling of Power” is excellent and should be mandatory reading in English classes from here on out.

[bayindirh]

Pump Six (by Paolo Bacigalupi) comes into my mind.

[JadeNB]

I think that the classic of the genre is "The feeling of power" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power).