Tractors and Computers

It’s a little depressing that these days we mainly use computers to consume fast and react fast. Task management turns us into more productive human machines. Rather conveniently for managers, human machines have higher predictability and lower inherent value – they’re easy to automate, replace, and erase.

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When the calculator was first introduced in schools, the reaction was surprisingly close to the initial concerns I hear about students using AI for tasks like writing today. As education researcher Sarah J. Banks writes, in the early days of their popularity in the mid-1970s, many teachers were eager to incorporate calculators7 into their classroom

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