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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. (lemmy.world)
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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 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Turns out, having the facts is only a partial solution. If people don’t want to take them as facts, you’re still going to have stupid debates about anything and everything all of the time.

We’ve fixed the information availability problem, but human psychology hasn’t changed one bit.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

If everybody was fully exposed to the internet, a general consensus view on a topic would be eventually settled. The problem is that a lot of us live in walled gardens and the networks that be work to keep us in them