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It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

well this is not far off. We had a whole year of remote learning and "computers" did teach the kids.

[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was part of the first generation brought up with computers, and I've been spending my entire life since trying to figure out what went wrong and how to teach myself all of the things that computers failed to convey, while everyone tries to exploit the "gap" to attack their political opponents. It's been a riot.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

Back when computers were nowhere near capable of teaching kids, one can handwave away issues with the tech by saying "when the tech is ready to do this, it will be great" essentially. When the tech is at the point where it can sort of do something, but not do it well, one instead imagines how badly things might go if one tried the notion right now instead of at whatever point in the future the technology is good enough to actually do a good job.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You don't hate the computer teaching. You hate the corporate owner of said computer teaching.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

No, it's more than that. A computer, at least until we develop some sort of AGI, has no compassion, no understanding of human emotions, no actual awareness of who it is teaching.

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