[revolvingthrow]

Why learn to read and write when everyone carries a computer capable of TTS? Why learn anything when your pocket computer has access to AI doing the thinking much better than the average highschooler and has 100x the knowledge?

[graemep]

Because learning to read and write still develop your mind and capabilities. memorising stuff does not.

A better analogy would be "why stop memorising long works now we can read things instead". No one memorises epic poems anymore but we read novel instead.