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by hamburgererror 13 hours ago
Please, stop destroying human everyday life experience with technology and for your personal wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fun_They_Had

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This is one of weaker Asimov's works, in my opinion, as it merely projects pre-mass education era teaching into the future. Conflating mass education and socialization is pretty myopic when writing about the future with unlimited intelligent robots. You don't have to be taught in one-size-fits-all way to have shared experiences, it just happens to be done that way due to the scale, out of necessity, and many education systems and experiments since the 90's are trying to combine individualized learning with socialization. Unfortunately many post-WWII sci-fi predictions turned out to be self-fulfilling, because a lot of people got conditioned on them and can't imagine breaking the lore which is now a part of their lives.
Care to enlighten the rest of us how this is at all related to the submission? Is it because it's AI it is "destroying human everyday life experience"? Seems this company is trying to find a healthier (and better) way of using AI, unless I misunderstand something?
Not sure I would consider public schools a fun experience though. At least not for the majority of pupils.
The classroom experience cannot be replaced, but obviously Independent learning is still valuable and needed.
If said experience is subpar, e.g. when it happens with 30+ student classes when 80% dgaf, there's no harm in offering an alternative to those who wants it.

And the rest can continue enjoying everyday human life experience.