Then it changed. And it changed fast.

So much this (thx for sharing).

Like the author, save it happened here in France, school taught me handwriting using a pencil and after the basics were good enough, rather quickly, 'upgraded' me to a fountain pen. Sure, I may not be that young of a person anymore, nearing my 60s, but I'm not yet 'a long gone and forgotten past'. In that time frame we went from a school in which seeing a tv on a cart was an exciting event to a class in which the kids could be remote and in which the teacher is on the verge of being replaced by AI... A class whose very purpose (educating kids) is already being questioned: people starting to wonder if it's not a waste to teach kids now that AI can do everything.

In the very early 80s, my dad brought home our first computer (a pre-Mac model, from Apple). If I knew what computers were already, up to that very day the most high-tech was... my grandfather's typewriter and a game console from Atari (which I barely played with). Less than 50 years later the computer has invaded all our living spaces, personal and professional alike. It has spread like a virus and has even started to claim that it's not just making things simpler for us, then that it was smart, it now starts saying it's an intelligence that could soon do much better and way faster than us all the things we do. And most of us are like 'Mmm, 'k, fine. What's on the telly tonight?'

That's too fast a change and a change that's controlled by too few of us... without any of them being made accountable for the consequences.