I haven't seen any of your works or the critique of them ... yet. Now that I'm aware it exists I will check them out soon.
May I ask for your opinion on "Singularity University"? The idea that we have enough apps builders and VC building the next startup and nano-medicine and artificial intelligence researchers, what we need is people who think with the pace of innovation in mind and how to deploy these technologies to make big disruptive changes.
Another author I have in mind is Carr and the idea that technologies are actually making us less happy, less able to focus and engage, less able to retain information, less disciplined to experience depth, etc. Which seems to side with Brooks' concerns.
On a personal level, I don't see myself as a luddite, but I'm not about to give up disciplined pratise at the piano just because it's much eaiser to use artificial narrow intelligence to compose pleasing music. Sadly I don't need much investment and commitment to be able to use an ergonomic, intuitive AI app, I need that kind of classical training/ education to be able to experience the pleasure of being completely lost and engaged in a piano piece, or a long novel, etc.
Another concern: just because information is potentially available, it doesn't mean I've digested them and retained them and connecting the dots. And how much information I have retained and digested and consumed directly influence my perception of myself and my relationship to society/ technology etc. Do you think it's unimportant for human in general to be trained to retain and process a lot of relevant information together in order to draw conclusion and make decisions etc? (Yes I'm aware machine learning is apparently already beating human intuitoin in some aread, I have no doublt it will transform how we eventually all make decisions, but don't you think it's still important to have the capacity to retain and process a lot of information in our head in order to understand who we are etc?)
What do you think? Are we risking throwing the baby out with the bath water if we were to completely change the structure of education and undo all the structures we've gradually built and used and evolved over time?