I imagine you'd be a very "fun" teacher. The idea is to combine fun, game-like education with self driven standards. It can't work for everyone, but neither does current public school. Neither does religious school or home school. Neither does current self education. I don't know if it'll work, it'll have flaws and not work for everyone because that's how everything works. No matter how good you do, some people just won't try or will fail. It's simply a new tool that'll be added to the toolbox.

That's just the way things are. Some people are driven. Some people are not. The driven people, given access to tools and information, get to be better educated and live better lives. Why should the future be any different?

Cynically saying everyone is in the unmotivated category is wrong though. For every person that becomes a cyberpotato there'll be another that chooses to chase cyber-godhood. Just like there's people that give themselves a college education equivalent on their own time with free tools today.

Thanks, I've been thinking about the problem for years. I grew up in a rural town with terrible education and mostly had to teach myself whatever I wanted to learn, so these stories naturally attracted me to them.

If there's one thing I know, it's that technology doesn't change people. It just magnifies them. It'll be wonderful and terrible, but mostly just more.

I've seen this idea in a lot of Sci-Fi at this point. I'll talk about two, briefly. First is Mutaneer's Moon, in which automated AI driven education completely replaces teachers and traditional school. Everyone has the ability to look up anything with the power of the literal moon which is a giant machine in that universe. Very unrealistically, people protest for a while and then happily and immediately get in line.

Another is The Diamond Age. In this, people get access to wikipedia+. With this, people an ask any questions they want of the magic book and it'll educate you on anything. In the hands of a naturally curious and talented kid, this makes incredible people.

In both cases these are examples of "self-driven" education, based on AI. Our AI is not that good, is not that reliable or accurate. It's simply gotten to the level where it's tolerable. Given 10-20 years however, we might be able to reach a level of "automated education".

There's a couple of ways this could go. I suspect that at some point after the invention of good auto-ed governments will mandate standards. Much as people can educate themselves with youtube or skillshare now, people could do the same with these programs. With government approval/regulation however, they could also get legally useful degrees and diplomas.

Another is gamification. Imagine school as a game where everyone is competing for the high score. Every bit of education has been made fun using the techniques of modern gaming and AI. Many people hate this idea, but I think it could emerge in the near future.

It could be a wonderful tool, but it could also be terrifying. Imagine a gamified auto-ed system that's better than any traditional school and designed by someone evil. You could create an evil, exploitative, addictive school that pumps out people with whatever malign ideology you like. That's true of regular schools, but these would be magnified to a new level. Dictators could use these tools to shape the next generation.

It could be wonderful, it could be terrible. I believe we'll be getting there eventually though.

The material they use to make it strong is vulnerable to water, so they put it in wood which likes to absorb moisture?

This'll probably be the cross-laminated wood bridges all over again. For those that don't know over in europe they tried making a bunch of bridges out of clw. They ended up collapsing not long after from regular traffic because moisture weakened the bridges.

They won't become obsolete. Infantry did not become obsolete because of tanks. Tanks did not become obsolete because of Helicopters. Helicopters did not become obsolete because of fighter Jets. Fighter Jets will not become obsolete because of spaceships.

Each of these types of forces serves a different, vital role in war. You cannot capture and hold territory without infantry. You cannot bombard an area without artillery and air. Most relevant to your question, you cannot control the sea lanes and shipping without ships.

Even if we get a bunch of spaceships with orbital bombardment capabilities, they cannot defeat piracy. They alone cannot control territory. You still need a navy if you want to control the oceans. You can certainly bombard a navy from space and destroy it, but then you just have an ocean with no one controlling it.

That being said, control over space resources like asteroids and small moons will bring in trillions of dollars in revenue in today's dollars. It will certainly be the next big stage for conflict. It won't erase the importance of a blue water navy though. It'll simply be in addition to a blue water navy.