Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.
Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
It pleases me that people can be interactive.
What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.
I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
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