When I was a kid in the 80s, "computers will teach your kids in school" was one of those future utopia predictions. Now the thought of a computer teaching kids is horrifying to me.

posted 11 days ago

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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TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip

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11 days ago

Totally agree. It’s an improvement, but there was a lot of hype around it, which lead to inflated expectations. As a matter of fact, nowadays we have similarly silly expectations about AI. History repeats itself…

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InverseParallax@lemmy.world

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11 days ago

Yeah, we thought it would solve everything.

It solved problems that uncovered a much deeper set of underlying problems… :)

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