Excellent article Evan! Along the same lines of your post you may appreciate Alberto Romero's perspective in his 2021 article on Medium "What No One is Thinking: AGI Will Take Everyone by Surprise". Romero posits: "Could we create an AGI without knowing it? Or even without having the ability to eventually know it? Our measurement tools aren’t infinite nor boundless. We could create an AI whose limitations can’t be assessed." Source: - https://towardsdatascience.com/what-no-one-is-thinking-agi-will-take-everyone-by-surprise-a76903474c79

It is hard to predict with any certainty just exactly how AI will alter "learning" and "teaching" in the education system. The only thing I can feel confident in saying is that the education institutions (including school boards, government departments of education, etc) will not be early adopters of AI. That would be unfortunate as innovative approaches to personalized learning (via AI) could support students in ways that we could not have foreseen.

Couldn't agree more. Education systems embrace the principle of linearity in their pedagogical models. While this is helpful in measuring student progress in "learning" it severely limits the students' ability to understand the nature and nuances of complex systems.

Excellent and thoughtful article. Makes me wonder if some of the recent advances in AI tools (text-to-image generators, etc) can be adopted in the practice of speculative design? I, for one, would like to see more AI-generated images instead of boring Post-It-Notes used in design sprints.

This post has a simple yet spot-on message "start more stuff" echoing Marc Andreessen's 2020 essay "It's Time to Build". If we shift to framing entrepreneurship in terms of building and creating "stuff" rather than the more narrow view of the ins-and-outs of starting a business venture, it could do wonders to re-ignite the "lack of grassroots dynamism" noted by Edmund Phelps in his wonderful book "Mass Flourishing".

Really enjoying reading your posts on these topics. Been thinking a lot on the topics you cover: community-building (weaving), network effects, co-creation, designing for participation and contribution, etc. Interestingly, there are many parallels in community weaving with the practices adopted in successful open source software projects.

Your post reminded me of the wonderful "Crochet Coral Reef" initiative and the power of artist-led futures. From what I have learned of this imaginative community-based (worldwide) art project it seems to serve as a moral and compassionate response to climate change. For reference, check out: https://crochetcoralreef.org/about/theproject/