Good post. I wonder how much is a matter of “forgetting”, versus the inevitable cultural change of the shifting in generational experience? I’m about the same age as you, so my “post-internet” life is now eclipsing the duration of my “pre-internet” experience. For generations after us, they haven’t even known a pre-internet life to forget.
My children are growing up in a world where you can ask AI any question at any time and get an immediate answer. How will this change shape their minds?
As potent as AI is, I’m not sure it will cause the same social change as the (mobile) internet. AI collapses the long standing human process of seeking information into an immediate request/response. But connecting a human to every human in the world, at all times, and with an emphasis on consumption… feels more disruptive to human nature.
Thanks, Justin. Forgetting is definitely a possible explanation. I also do a lot of thinking about my children when I get into these nostalgic-historical modes.
I like how you characterize the internet---humans globally networked around the principles of consumption. I wonder what the networking principle of AI will be... I hope not efficiency, but it sure looks like it is going that way, unless our tool makers start to rethink design setup and interface very quickly which is rather unlikely. When it comes to curriculum building, that is now my primarily focus. How can I build curriculum and develop instructional approaches that break up the efficiencies, invite reflection upon the hidden processes, and put teachers and students back in a position of making choices about where they want to go next. Big work. But in education, it is always big work, no?
Good post. I wonder how much is a matter of “forgetting”, versus the inevitable cultural change of the shifting in generational experience? I’m about the same age as you, so my “post-internet” life is now eclipsing the duration of my “pre-internet” experience. For generations after us, they haven’t even known a pre-internet life to forget.
My children are growing up in a world where you can ask AI any question at any time and get an immediate answer. How will this change shape their minds?
As potent as AI is, I’m not sure it will cause the same social change as the (mobile) internet. AI collapses the long standing human process of seeking information into an immediate request/response. But connecting a human to every human in the world, at all times, and with an emphasis on consumption… feels more disruptive to human nature.
I guess we will see 😬
Thanks, Justin. Forgetting is definitely a possible explanation. I also do a lot of thinking about my children when I get into these nostalgic-historical modes.
I like how you characterize the internet---humans globally networked around the principles of consumption. I wonder what the networking principle of AI will be... I hope not efficiency, but it sure looks like it is going that way, unless our tool makers start to rethink design setup and interface very quickly which is rather unlikely. When it comes to curriculum building, that is now my primarily focus. How can I build curriculum and develop instructional approaches that break up the efficiencies, invite reflection upon the hidden processes, and put teachers and students back in a position of making choices about where they want to go next. Big work. But in education, it is always big work, no?